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They don't have the same feelings as regular people anyhow.
The same can be said of most autistics.
You might say that as a joke, but it's a very accurate example. The emotional range of a sentient piece of machinery would likely be very similar to that of a person with autism. With that, there is a good chance that people with autism would have an easier time interacting with sentient machines than the average individual would. Taking it a step further, I would be willing to wager an autistic individual would be more comfortable interacting with a sentient machine than they would with a normal person.
Raydan - like it or not, we humans are computers as well. We aren't silicon based, but organic computers. Rather than relying soley on electrical interactions for computation, we also include a chemical process. Otherwise, we are simply machines with a limited set of pre-programmed instructions, including the instruction to learn. Machines can be given a similar base instruction set, whereby they are allowed to write and modify their own programming, thus learning.
So, if our electrical-chemical process can produce sentience, why can't a strictly electrical process do the same thing?
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