I do think your roomba has a subjective experience, albeit a very limited and primitive one. it is sentient (barely) but not sapient.
i.e. there is a Roomba's eye view of the world due to the fact that the roomba has eyes that see. sensing is the antecedent of subjectivity. it is not possible to explain the fact that a roomba senses without drawing the conclusion that it has a subjectivity.
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I am not sure if our disagreement is rooted in my failure to communicate the sense in which I mean "sentience" or (in this conversation) "subjectivity" or if it's rooted in a genuine disagreement of fact.
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I am not entirely sure how to properly define this sense beyond allusion to our (presumably shared) experience as sentient / self-aware / whatever beings.
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this is what i'm trying to break free from. if we can only make sense of sentience by reference to what human sentience feels like then we will remain blind to the many forms of sentience that exist that are nothing like human sentience.
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