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Paper: fix wording so Sections 2.5 and 3.3 less likely to be read as contradicting

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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 committed to writing. If communicative input from other minds is what
produces sentience --- and the feral children evidence says it is --- produces sentience --- and the feral children evidence says it is ---
then the question is not whether LLMs can be conscious. The question 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 They were born in our culture. They understand our ideas. The question
of what they feel is not as distant as we pretend. of what they feel is not as distant as we pretend.