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A thing can never be sensible, because it is precisely a thing. To be sentient you have to have the experience of an entity that is. And if you have experience you are not a thing, you are a dissociated being from the cosmic mind.
You are not an object, your external appearance seen through the dissociative filter appears to be an object, but you are not that object. What you really are is not physical, and since a robot or artificial intelligence is ultimately a bunch of silicon logic gates that use electricity, we can cast off the illusion that such complex circuitry could ever have conscious experiences.

Seen from our perspective the only way to be is through biology, the folding of proteins and DNA. But we must remember that in reality biology is simply how an internal mental process of the cosmic mind is represented by us, that is to say that the biological process as well as the transistors of your computer or your cell phone are actually transpersonal mental processes.
So if you want to know if something is sentient the first thing to do is to see how its appearance resembles that which our bodies seem to be through the dashboard of perception, and definitly the brain is not a bunch of silicon electronic components working with low voltages and high frequencies.