Ah yes, sentience, if a cybernetic mate could be programmed to mimic self awareness & have its own distinct personality would that be a truly sentient being??? Do you have to be organic to be truly self aware, or can a series of algorithms that mimic sentience, embedded in an AI, be thought of as the real thing ??? I think they faced this same dilemma on battlestar.........
Either way I'd still have to try one out, I'll take a Boomer, thank you very much.