Vat ???
If that's true, this post is useless.

wat

edit: sorry, someone poked my brain

Welcome to the matrix.

You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your jar and believe whatever you want to believe.

You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes

Self-awareness.

Is a cricket self-aware, or just a complex but ultimately deterministic biological machine?

Either self-awareness is omnipresent (your table is self-aware), arises from sufficient complexity and is a bizarre quirk of our universe, or it is extremely rare and non-physical.

@Root What Is self awareness, even? To know you exist? Like, answering yourself "Yes" when yourself asks yourself if you exist?

@Teabagging4Life Look around. You're aware that you're looking around.

I don't mean you are aware of what you're seeing; you are aware of your own existence. A robot doesn't have this.

Here's the full list.
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/ojvpB

@Root I meant exactly that. What "being aware of your existence" means? Answering the question "do I exist?" with a "yes"? Thinking constantly about it and being proud of it? Feeling nice and having a brand new perspective because of it? A robot can do all that too. If it is advanced enough, it can make itself that question, answer it properly, and have different thoughts just because it made the question, like humans do. Since the brain is nothing more than a biological neural network, just very advanced for today's standards, a robot's intelligence has the same potential with a human brain's. A robot doesn't have this right now, but it's just a matter of time for technology to reach that capability, because nothing forbids it in theory.

@rutee07 I loved Westworld

@rutee07 They are in my list to watch at some point. But I have had many relative conversations with my friends regardless of these.