Ahh, so you find the use of the root word of sentience to be non-specific?

I’m not sure if you know this, but on the internet dictionary, you can click on the other blue words if you don’t understand them, and it will show you their definitions too!

Then you just have to mentally concatenate the knowledge. I’ll help walk you through it this time. The root word you need help with is “sentient” (at least I think that’s the whole of it, but if you also don’t understand any of the other words in that definition just let me know and I’ll break them down).

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sentient

Sentient (adjective) -

1. Capable of sensing or feeling: concious of or responsive to the sensations of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, or feeling

2. Aware

3. Finely sensitive in perception or feeling

So that means sentience (noun) is:

1. A quality or state of being able to feel, or perceive feeling

2. Feeling or sesation as distinguished from perception and thought

Ok, so now, do you think that the slop generation software program is able to feel? Do you think the software program is aware? Do you think the software program is finely sensitive in perception or feeling?

Follow up question, Do you have any foundational conception of what a computer is, or what software does?

I don't mean linguistically.

I was always under the impression that it's a complex combination of feelings, perception, experiences, cognition, and self-awareness. Not one simple yes/no definition. Y'know, like what the human brain (and we're seeing more, nonhuman animals' brains) does, but stochastic spicy autocomplete never can do.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sentient