Sentience
Discussion
The Three Attributes That Enable Sentience in Human Beings:
#1. A brain of adequate complexity to enable an understanding of language.
#2. A voice box complex enough for speech.
#3. Hands with opposable thumbs for recording and preserving language.
Many species have two of these attributes. Humans have all three. ㅤ
Speech is not required for sentience. Neither are opposable thumbs. I don't see the logic there.
As for a sufficiently complex brain, in that case is my CPU sentient since it has complex logical architecture and the power is on? I think not.
Self reflection is reliant on introspection, which is all reliant on language. You can not form thoughts without words.
Go on, try it.
These three body parts enable all thoughts and language in sentient species, without them you are just living moment to moment without complex memories.
You think, therefor you are.
Ones memory of a child's birth implies ignoring the momentum of the living child. What is more complex...your living child or your memory of the child's birth?
Why make complex what was simple before?
Simple/simplex - "one fold"...how many times can ONE fold self before realizing the complex error of attempting to try that?
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