if running a computer program is what creates consciousness, then we could claim anything running a computer program to be sentient. If Google’s AI is conscious, then why isn’t a thermostat conscious? After all, it also runs a computer program. David Chalmers argued that thermostats are likely to be conscious, although “we will likely be unable to sympathetically imagine these experiences any better than a blind person can imagine sight, or than a human can imagine what it is like to be a bat.”76
