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āDoes this require one to believe that sentience is limited to/āsubstantially more likely in biological neurons than silicon?ā
ā³more likelyā yes, ālimited toā no.
Iād also add that this is a reasonable stance even for people who put a lot of credence in physicalist/ā functionalist theories. Whatever your theoretical commitments, we know with more certainty than almost anything else that human brains an support consciousness, so itād make sense to be particularly worried here.