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I hold a 12-week cautionary stance because we know that they don't gain sentience in the first trimester. Let's just do this all the way.

I hold a 12-week cautionary stance because we know that they don't gain sentience in the first trimester. Let's just do this all the way.

Yeah, so we have proof that they're sentient on the basis of their thalamocortical connections. It's actually a faith claim. And their conjunctions with their cerebrum.

Yeah, so we have proof that they're sentient on the basis of their thalamocortical connections. It's actually a faith claim. And their conjunctions with their cerebrum.

Are you going to make an argument for that?

Are you going to make an argument for that?

How?

How?

How don't we know?

How don't we know?

Are you going to expand on why we don't know?

Are you going to expand on why we don't know?

Yeah, sure. I'm going to make the claim on the basis of, like, I didn't agree. I was just saying, okay, sure.

Yeah, sure. I'm going to make the claim on the basis of, like, I didn't agree. I was just saying, okay, sure.

But anyways, so I'm going to make the claim on the basis of empirical data that we have thalamocortical connections that work in conjunction with our cerebrum that is going to allow us to have thoughts, desires, and motivations and have the human subjective experience, which those, the mind, sentience, is what makes us able to have complex intelligence and higher rationale as humans, right?

But anyways, so I'm going to make the claim on the basis of empirical data that we have thalamocortical connections that work in conjunction with our cerebrum that is going to allow us to have thoughts, desires, and motivations and have the human subjective experience, which those, the mind, sentience, is what makes us able to have complex intelligence and higher rationale as humans, right?

Does seeing consciousness matter? We see it in their neurological structures and mechanisms.

Does seeing consciousness matter? We see it in their neurological structures and mechanisms.

Hi, Charlie. They just pulled me from outside, so I wasn't even prepared, but here I am. So my question's on immigration. Considering the U.S.

Hi, Charlie. They just pulled me from outside, so I wasn't even prepared, but here I am. So my question's on immigration. Considering the U.S.