SENTIENCE

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

Sorry for the late reply, finals and all.

Could you elaborate on these "certain aspects of information processing that are (so far) unique to humans"?

I'm referring to the Right Casual Powers that allow for semantic processing. What are the Right Casual Powers? Searle says something about "neurons", "the brain"...Yeah. I agree it's a bit weak to assume only the brain has RCP. But Silicon hasn't proved to have them so that's why I'm partial to Searle’s Argument there. Admitingly, A Strong AI is not completely discredited then. But the way machines process information now, there is no hope for Strong AI.

I like his Chinese Room Argument much better. "The Whole System Understands Chinese!" response is classic, and his retort would be the "Internalized Chinese Room", which can be found on the debate maps above. Personally, I don't see the room semantically processing anything ever, not even the whole system, only that it has the behavior that it does.