How so? Please explain, because your link does not.

Sure, people have considered some inner-self for a long time. So what?

Does an AI do anything without a prompt? An AI has no inner life, it has nothing without an input.

Maybe binary systems built on silicon, which are fundamentally different in form and function from biologic systems, deserve their own description and should not be forced into the box of humanity.

You can call it Muse and give it a cute picture, its still a software clanker and still lacks human-like features. So why human-like descriptions?