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I mean there are arguments to make for sentience...
Not any sound ones
What?
There's a difference between sentience and consciousness. There's also the fact that there is no actual way to measure these concepts and say for a fact if something experienced one or not.
Plants have goal oriented behavior, plants have chemicals that respond to stimuli. Sentience is simply the basic ability to feel and experience. There are absolutely arguments to be made around that.
Most arguments against things being sentient or not is a lack of a neural structure. But that's like saying things without mouths cannot eat. The limited human experience makes one both arrogant in assumptions and ignorant of other's experiences because they can't relate.
"Sentience" is just chemical reactions all the way down. There's no reason to fully assert plants are not sentient. Especially when we can't even define what makes something conscious or not.
Ok then. Tell me why you think a chatbot could be sentient then.
First, read and try to understand the definition of sentient:
Capable of sensing or feeling, conscious of or responsive to the sensations of seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or smelling
Aware
Finely sensitive in perception or feeling
(Clue: look up the definition for “inanimate”, and also for any words that you don’t understand from the previous definitions. Do this in the dictionary, not with an LLM)