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throwaway764586893 t1_ix7h1zr wrote

Waifus don't even have to be sentient, just LOOK realistic.

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botfiddler t1_ix8grf2 wrote

Sentience is a term used in almost esoteric ways. I don't know what you mean. If she senses the world and reacts to it, then she's sentient.

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red75prime t1_ixbegzc wrote

Then your toilet water tank is also sentient. It senses whether it is full and reacts accordingly.

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botfiddler t1_ixbyku0 wrote

No, I'm sure there's a difference, but not sure if there's value in discussing that here at this point.

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red75prime t1_ixc3lln wrote

Why not? Do you think that a system designed to hone an art of making you believe that its performances of expressing various emotions are genuine, while having no analogs of human emotional circuitry, does, indeed, experience all those emotions?

That is something very complex, but in the end solving not a problem of survival, self-development and so on and so forth, but a problem of producing believable and pleasurable to you movements and vocalizations in response to various stimuli.

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botfiddler t1_ixc94eo wrote

It's just an term, which everyone can fill with their own meaning. It's not useful, and I don't need it.

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