alt Hacker NewsAnd 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.
>And Plato had no grounding in biology, and so his work here was quite interesting but also quite wrong.
Defining what a word should mean doesn't require any understanding of biology unless you make the assumption that it's a biology-related word. Why should the definition of "thinking" have any reference to biology? If you assume it does, then you're basically baking in the assumption that machines can't think.