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There are situations in which humans will behave predictably, does this test indicate that humans are sentient conditionally (based on their environment).

Or, every mechanism in the physical world has some (occasionally very low) chance of behaving unpredictably (for devices we designed for some purpose, we usually call this something like failure/error). For example, an airplane engine may unpredictably fail. Do airplanes gain additional sentience as maintenance is put off?

parent bee_rider 4 years ago

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