OT - Sentience

[Raapys]

How's that so different from the brain where electrical input goes in and electrical output goes out?

Anyway, personally I'd guess the brain was also simple in the beginning; so simple that it wasn't even aware. It had to be simple, things like that don't just suddenly appear out of nowhere. As it evolved through millions of years, it slowly grew in complexity, and also in awareness.

We humans have the most complex brains( that I know, anyway ), and we could also be said to be, by far probably, the most aware, and self-aware, creatures on earth.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Basically, I have never seen nor heard of a machine that outputs anything that wasn't either in the input or in the machine.

Even an electrical generator. Before you say 'mechanical energy to electricity', let me point out, 'magnets' and 'electrons'.

Basically, you're presuposing a machine that does something no other machine I have ever heard of does. Yes, it's possible. But the odds are against it.