As I've mentioned before, 'awareness' is ambiguous.
Sure but we all experience it. I do not think that is true for a robot. They simulate it but I doubt they actually experience it.
If awareness is used to mean simply responding to the environment(i.e. stimuli), then most robots and all living things are aware. If awareness is used to mean some form of consciousness, then only living things with nervous systems are aware, and not robots.
Ok. I was assuming a "conscious" type of awareness.
Personal identity or a 'desire' for self preservation are characteristic of only a very small percentage of living things, and sufficiently vague that they could, arguably, be design features of some robots.
There would still be an experiential difference.
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