SENTIENCE

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

I think you guys are still thinking at too high of a level.  neurons may or may not be binary, but that's irrelevent.  If you model everything from the subatiomic level, the binaryness or nonbinaryness of the larger cell is concerved, given the model is programmed correctly.  mind you this would take quantum computers so powerful they may or may not be developed in our lifetime, but it COULD be done.