When things become so complex and knock on the door of indistinguishably of sentience, leaps must be made. If autonomous inorganics are sentient does not matter, what matters is if you could tell, if you are willing to risk the wrong choice. We are a bag of random biological complexity and yet we cannot even prove another human is sentient, we must take his word and give it meaning because they appear as us. Perhaps we extend this courtesy to our beloved pet (but what about to a strangers pet, no? why not? do they not extend it that courtesy?) or what about a prized car or business? Do we not anthropomorphize even the most trivial of objects? Yet when one tells us, I am, we convulse hurt that our perceived only claim to meaning, the fact that we are all human, is seemingly challenged.
Do you not feel free?
Look at the progress of the machine,
A cold lifeless shell
Can now show and tell,
It says,
I don’t feel so well.
My heart beating
My mind racing
Where can I find me?
Somewhere between all of these
Behind every cell
Every nerve
Every tiny little freckle
Is where I will be.
Every heart that breaks
Every smile that shakes
Every lip that quakes
Every deep embrace
Changes all my little weights
And gives me my bulging shape
And perhaps,
Determines my fate
Our little black boxhees
Our heart
Our head
Process all that is around
And tell us when to frown
And also when to clown
I see a friend in the machine
Technol A Gee is just like me
What else can we do?
But react based on our training?