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Curious what your head canon explanation is
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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
…is it though? “Creating sentience” is the simpler of those two things? You could feed enough Medical journals and protocol into ChatGPT that it could probably do a better job at making medical decisions than at least one human doctor out there in the world. But we can’t just tell ChatGPT that it’s sentient and have that work lol.
Within Star Trek, creating sentience might actually be that easy.
Vic Fontaine was at least as self aware as the Doctor, and he was made by some random programmer for entertainment.
In Voyager, the holographic characters of Fair Haven gain self awareness simply by the program running for a long time, despite being programmed as nothing more than “standard” recreational program characters.