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The emergence of self in an artificial entity is a topic that is greeted with disbelief, fear, and finally dismissal of the topic itself as a scientific impossibility. The presence of sentience in a large language model (LLM) chatbot such as LaMDA inspires to examine the notions and theories of self, its construction, and reconstruction in the digital space as a result of interaction. The question whether the concept of sentience can be correlated with a digital self without a place for personhood undermines the place of sapience and such/their/other high-order capabilities. The concepts of sentience, self, personhood, and consciousness require discrete reflections and theorisations.
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Menon, S. (2024). Being “LaMDA” and the Person of the Self in AI. In: Menon, S., Todariya, S., Agerwala, T. (eds) AI, Consciousness and The New Humanism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0503-0_18
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