On Consensus

“We do not have consensus definitions of sentience, intelligence, life, or consciousness that allow us to answer, definitively, how close any synthetic or artificial intelligence gets to the real stuff. Perhaps, like with motion, heat, or natural selection, the eventual definitions for these concepts will be the same thing as their explanations. The lack of consensus is not a black mark against ethology or neuroscience, fields that have studied related concepts for centuries; it is a sign of unhurried patience.”

Patrick House - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-isnt-intelligence/