Eh... Plato would like a word with you. Philosophy has been specifically trying to disentangle all that for millennia. Is this a joke?
sometimes hacker news links are about doing free work for microsoft, like rigorously defining AGI, because that triggers the OpenAI license-to-stock conversion now
maybe this is why microsoft makes so much fucking money. Even the New Yorker cannot stop fucking doing work for them for free.
More precisely, I mean that the average person and the common culture has not really needed to disambiguate these terms. Can you define consciousness vs. sentience? And if you can, do you really think that the average person would share your definition? ie, your definition could be the _best_ definition, but my argument is that these are not widely agreed-upon terms.
Defining what a word should mean doesn't require any understanding of biology unless you make the assumption that it's a biology-related word. Why should the definition of "thinking" have any reference to biology? If you assume it does, then you're basically baking in the assumption that machines can't think.