What does sentience require?
This brings us back to the question of whether all Joycean machines are sentient. Perhaps, it is impossible to create a Joycean machine that is not sentient, just as it is impossible to have an electric charge with no electric field. On the other hand, photons have no electric charge but do have electric fields. Analogously, it may be quite possible to create a socially and linguistically fluent Joycean machine that is absolutely devoid of sentience. I would not expect such a joycebie to be indistinguishable from a sentient person because sentient persons do have significant representation of sentience in their minds, despite their inability to properly define or explain sentience. The joycebie would either find the idea of sentience to be rather meaningless or would confuse it with some other phenomenon when conversing with a sentient person about sentience. Scientists cannot presently answer the question about the possibility of a joycebie because science remains in such a great stat
