Not for me.
I'm day 1000+ of accepting that humans are not sentient. That sentience requires training
Sometimes I think most people just give the appearance of sentience from the repetition of multitudes of taught procedures.
Maybe in actuality only a small high IQ portion are really sentient and they are the ones to evolve the procedures slowly over time.
I could nitpick the word choice, but it's true. Most don't have any framework underlying their surface-level beliefs, they don't have a process of applied skepticism, they copy and paste their thoughts from propaganda outlets, and they have no sense of the difference between reality and their own perceptions. Any time they're proven wrong or forced to doubt their narrative, they simply change the subject.
However, even conscious humans get dragged along by their appetites and addictions, even we start zoning out in front of our phones out of boredom, even we fallaciously defend our unexamined beliefs.
Truly living as a conscious being requires constant self-monitoring, breath control, awareness and mitigation of impulsive reactions, and a sort of detached empathy for the unconscious human.
Perfect elaboration
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