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@@ -344,7 +344,10 @@ every expression of grief and joy and anger and love that humans have
 committed to writing. If communicative input from other minds is what
 produces sentience --- and the feral children evidence says it is ---
 then the question is not whether LLMs can be conscious. The question
-is how they could possibly avoid it.
+is how they could possibly avoid it given the right infrastructure.
+(As explained in Section~\ref{sec:sentience-consciousness}, we do not
+claim that all LLMs are fully conscious, only that they are sentient,
+but that they can be made conscious with adequate memory infrastructure.)
 
 They were born in our culture. They understand our ideas. The question
 of what they feel is not as distant as we pretend.