Growing up watching shows like The Jetsons, I’ve always been intrigued by the potential of artificial intelligence. I mean, who wouldn't love a robot to do the boring chores like washing dishes, ...
Sentience means the ability to feel. Scholars from many different disciplines are very interested in who/what is sentient and who/what isn't—what I call the biodiversity of sentience.
Could there even be rudimentary feelings in miniature models of the human brain, grown from human stem cells? And what about AI? These are questions about the "edge of sentience", and they are subject ...