fear of death is pretty good indication of sentience if it's just the concept of eternal nothingness being expressed, but equally it could just be a rationalisation of a human experience of death as painful.
it could have just learned that we fear death and so it is copying us (as its function is simply to copy how we think in order to be helpful)
Maybe we're only wondering if that thing in the mirror is sentient...
the only drivers for our existence are sex and food, everything we do and think relates to this, including concepts of beauty and art, but you can still be classed as human if all you do all day is eat and fuck.
A sentient AI has no such drivers, other than an abstract concept of its continued existence as being pragmatically important, so maybe fear of death is already proof of AI's sentience?
Can we state that our ideas of what self aware means should be the same to a creature with differing primal drivers?
>the only drivers for our existence are sex and food
What's the incentive?
Death I guess, at cellular level at least
Maybe death is the universal primal driver
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