There is reason to believe that consciousness, sentience, or emotions require a biological base.
Or
There is no reason to believe that consciousness, sentience, or emotions do not require a biological base.
The first is simple, if there is a reason you can ask for it and evaluate it's merits. Quantum stuff is often pointed to here, but the reasoning is unconvincing.
The second form
There is no reason to believe P does not require Q.
There are no proven reasons but there are suspected reasons. For instance if the operation that nerons perform is what makes consciousness work, and that operation can be reproduced non-biologicLly it would follow that non biological consciousness would be possible.
For any observable phenomenon in the brain the same thing can be asked. So far it seems reasonable to expect most of the observable processes could be replicated.
None of it acts as proof, but they probably rise to the bar of reasons.
There is reason to believe that consciousness, sentience, or emotions require a biological base.
Or
There is no reason to believe that consciousness, sentience, or emotions do not require a biological base.
The first is simple, if there is a reason you can ask for it and evaluate it's merits. Quantum stuff is often pointed to here, but the reasoning is unconvincing.
The second form There is no reason to believe P does not require Q.
There are no proven reasons but there are suspected reasons. For instance if the operation that nerons perform is what makes consciousness work, and that operation can be reproduced non-biologicLly it would follow that non biological consciousness would be possible.
For any observable phenomenon in the brain the same thing can be asked. So far it seems reasonable to expect most of the observable processes could be replicated.
None of it acts as proof, but they probably rise to the bar of reasons.