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Can a computer be sentient?

The science of consciousness has made tremendous progress over the last 20 years.

This website is tentative to explain the latest discovery and answer an old question: can a computer be sentient?

Here are the sources:

Sentience, by Nicholas Humphrey
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, by Anil Seth https://amzn.eu/d/40XvLYb
Josha Bach:

https://youtu.be/FZxm810ruz0?si=qkHqWiu8TFnr2gF6

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Researchers

Henry Shevlin

Josha bach Daniel Dennett David Chalmers Marvin Minsky Rodney Brooks Eric Schwitzgebel

Selected Papers

AI Consciousness is Inevitable: A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective.Consciousness, Machines, and Moral Status Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism

Thought experiments

There are classics, but confusing and useless.

The hard problem of consciousness The Chinese room argument

Other references

📽️Videos Human digital cloning The Nature of Categories from Douglas Hofstadter From arxiv

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