>>AI is literally imitating the neural processes of living beings but it's probably not sentient because it doesn't have a body! No we can't prove this btw just trust us bro! Sentience comes from true (quantum) randomness, thus microtubules (see modern renditions of OrchOR and modern discoveries regarding quantum tunneling in the cytoskeleton) or certain specific quantum computations are required for it to be present. Source why OrchOR is right? - I said so. Also, "trust me bro" is literally any single fucking argument regarding the hard problem and it can't be otherwise since consciousness is the only hard-cap limit of the epistemic horizon, but materialist-physicalist midwits are incapable of processing such complex lines of thought. Also emergentism is peak midwittery since there are literally no examples of emergent "true" properties (truly ireducable to its elements) in any field of our empirical experience whatsoever (no, magnetism is not a true fundamental property, since it boils down to how photons, electrons and speed of light interact). And consciousness is by definition a true fundamental property, since it's literally from what all our (or should I say MY?) posterior understandings of the world of empirical evidence arise from - materialist/physicalist reality is merely a consistently and stably repeating pattern in the world of conscious experience, so yeah, consciousness preceeds the brain, not vice versa. If we try being consistent while trying to be strictly materialist/physicalist, we inevitably reach absurd conclusions such as "consciousness doesn't exist since it can't be observed scientifically" (hard eliminativism) or "consciousness is just an illusion made up by philosophical zombie meatbags to function properly" (illusionism, which is basically a subset of hard eliminativism). Btw, my source: trust me bro.

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