alt Hacker News> We didn't really previously need to disambiguate thinking / intelligence / consciousness / sentience / ego / identity / etc.
Eh... Plato would like a word with you. Philosophy has been specifically trying to disentangle all that for millennia. Is this a joke?
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everdrive • yesterday at 2:28 PM
And Plato had no grounding in biology, and so his work here was quite interesting but also quite wrong.
More precisely, I mean that the average person and the common culture has not really needed to disambiguate these terms. Can you define consciousness vs. sentience? And if you can, do you really think that the average person would share your definition? ie, your definition could be the _best_ definition, but my argument is that these are not widely agreed-upon terms.
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we didn't really previously NEED to, but we still tried bc it was an interesting question. today the NEED seems more urgent