SENTIENCE

Mmkay, is sentience/consiousness/ect quantum, chemical/electrical, or SPIRITUALLL?

Consciousness is an emergent property of the biological functions of the Brain. I'm sure there's more than enough proof of this with aphasia and phantom limbs.

If you could somehow magically reconstruct a brain atom for atom, neuron for neuron and shoot electricity through it, it will have the mental states we consider "conscious". It’s the whole brain-in-the-vat, Matrix, Descartes thing people.

If AI could be considered intelligent, it would never be to the point we consider intelligent like a human being. As Searle has mentioned in his Chinese Room Parable that difference with a computer is that it processes information through syntax, not semantics. If we take that to account, I'm not sure how practical it is. A Turing-compatible machine still seems consciousness, even if we know otherwise.

Now, my whole beef with this Searlian-Physicalism is how the hell is there volition based mental causation?

And for God’s sake, don’t bring in Kant-axiom crap or Nihilism BS. Most sane people ignore that crap now.