Ad_Captandum
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That's fine if you don't believe that.
But the fact is, that whether you think those designations are superficial or not, they are temporary for one thing, and they don't yield any insight on what is the nature of sentience. So do you have any insight on what you think the phenomenon of sentience actually is, or do you only have temporary designations to offer? If so, I would put forward that your notion that you are actually British in any meaningful, real sense, is simply imaginary, something that only exists in your subjective mind.
Just as your god is an imaginary construct that only exists in your subjective mind?
I fail to see the difference.
Anyway, I think there's a lot more normative and moral power in my conception of sentience: People are all sovereign, to an extent, and living in a subjective world. To that end, the constructs we create have the ultimate moral power in the world -- governments, laws, systems of thought. These are literally everything -- both our captors and our saviours.
There is nothing but us -- but I think that's a powerful thing.
What is a god except something which gives meaning to the universe? That is precisely what we do. You and I -- we're Gods. We don't need some fairy tale about an incestual father-son celestial dictator to give us meaning -- we can do it ourselves.
In fact, we have been all along.