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A purely functional definition of sentience has the benefit of sidestepping much tedious metaphysics. However, I would encourage would-be "Turing testers" to spend some time playing with a token probability viewer to get an understanding of what this type of model is doing.
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I got a good helping from cogsci long ago. Seems to me that measuring appearance of sentience by the experience of it goes past the blind men and the elephant and is always going end in semantics. Maybe someone needs to keep plugging at that? I dunno, I don't find it fun.
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