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Comment author: JoshuaZ 16 December 2010 06:56:41PM 2 points [-]

By "sentience" I mean something having qualia. It's well-defined. It's just impossible to test for.

This should already set off alarm bells. But even if you are unpacking sentience the way you are doing, what makes you think that intelligence is at all connected to the amount of qualia?

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