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Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by User23 on Saturday July 23, 2022 @10:42AM (#32203755)
> because I completely lack sentience while asleep or before a certain age

All you can say is you don’t remember. Children who are too young to form reliable long term memories still form short term ones and are observably sentient from birth and by extrapolation before, albeit in a more limited fashion than adults.

This is more than a quibble, because it’s been used to justify barbaric treatment of babies with the claimed justification that they either don’t sense pain or it doesn’t matter because they won’t remember.

Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient by mr_mitm on Saturday July 23, 2022 @10:51AM (#32203839)
Surely I haven't been conscious minutes after conception. So there has to be either a phase transition or a gradual increase of consciousness. It cannot be purely a matter of not remembering.