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Thomas Metzinger on a moratorium on artificial sentience development

The Sentience Institute Podcast

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Is Consciousness a Necessary Condition for Sentience?

Can you imagine a class of systems that by the way you take the term to be is conscious but not sentient? Do you think there could be non-sentient machines with a stream of thought? That I could certainly imagine. The interesting question would be if some forms of rule-based operations on symbols necessitate consciousness, and what exactly the function is that this has elevated to the level of conscious processing. If you want to comment on that, then we can move on to the next point.

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