• BJW@lemmus.org
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    5 hours ago

    Exactly. It’s not so cut and dry. Are they? You can never know until you experience their existence.

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      5 hours ago

      Lol no. Actually cells are demonstrably NOT sentient. They have no capacity for choice. No capacity for emotion or experience. They are literally molecular machinery. And we(scientists) understand that machinery to a shocking degree.

      If you think cells have any degree of sentience, then you must make a similar argument for advanced clockwork machines. Not robots, pure wind-up clockwork automata.

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        44 minutes ago

        Ah, so you’ve experienced each of their existences? Fascinating.