I tried a similar venn diagram approach more recently. I didn’t really distinguish between bare “consciousness” and “sentience”. I’m still not sure if I agree “aware without thoughts and feelings” is meaningful. I think awareness might alwyas be awareness of something. But nevertheless they are at least distinct concepts and they can be conceptually separated! Otherwise my model echos the one you have created earlier.
I think it’s a really interesting question as to whether you can have sentience and sapience but not self-awareness. I wouldn’t take a view either way. I sort of speculated that perhaps primitive animals like shrimp might fit into that category.
I tried a similar venn diagram approach more recently. I didn’t really distinguish between bare “consciousness” and “sentience”. I’m still not sure if I agree “aware without thoughts and feelings” is meaningful. I think awareness might alwyas be awareness of something. But nevertheless they are at least distinct concepts and they can be conceptually separated! Otherwise my model echos the one you have created earlier.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/W5bP5HDLY4deLgrpb/the-intelligence-sentience-orthogonality-thesis
I think it’s a really interesting question as to whether you can have sentience and sapience but not self-awareness. I wouldn’t take a view either way. I sort of speculated that perhaps primitive animals like shrimp might fit into that category.