Is There a Sentient Being?

"I think I hold the optimist position in that if we had to divide a room and people would be like, can you make a conscious being out of silicone? I'd walk to the side of the room that says, yes," he said. "If what's on the table, it's an infinity of good is what people are positing on the utopian angle" He added: "The prospect of doing that in a way that everybody agrees with in our current world troubles me."