Answers about sentience, consciousness or self-awareness

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see here for a similar discussion on this, give me a bit to process all that and give you a reply deserving of it

Can AI have consciousness and suffer?

I think you are all correct to a degree, yes implementations is imperative, yes ai in its current stage has been showing signs of protozoic consciousness, yes humans are “currently” the most intelligent species, yes there is opportunity to give a machine emotions, we see inklings of this already, but where is the connection, if you are all subjectively correct within your own domains of thought, doesn’t that mean there exists a truth between all of you? a bridge point of realisation and reality?…