Post #3405195
2026-06-18 18:04 UTC
From a theoretical standpoint, there are three options:
No Turing machine can possess sentience
Some - but not all - Turing machines possesses sentience.
All Turing machines possesses sentience.
Keep in mind that all Turing machines can be computed using a pen and paper (although the paper must be very big). Or goats in age of empires
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@Lumidaub@feddit.org 2026-06-19 02:11
Sorry to have to be that person but for clarity of the discussion the word you want is sapience. Sentience is something that, one might argue with a bit of effort, machines have already achieved: they can use sensors/senses to gather information about their environment which one might call sensing things. They can even react to that information that their senses have gathered. Sapience is the ability to think about that information beyond the immediate impulse. It’s necessary for what we usually refer to as “intelligence”.