First version: Dec. 2016. Updated: Jan. 2017 I have created this text from the materials I prepared for the talk I gave at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Santiago de Compostela on December 15, 2016 along with Brian Tomasik, which was entitled “Outlook and future Risks of artificial consciousness”.
“Digital computers have eclipsed analog, but perhaps the extraordinary advantages of analog computers, as his “infinite” precision or its ability to efficiently solve problems such as ordination could be a requirement for sentience, because machines for which we have overwhelming proof of sentience (animals in general) are analog machines.”
Source: http://manuherran.com/wp-content/uploads/Sentience-in-machines.pdf