But, "sentience" or "consciousness" isn't defined as "decision-making." By definition, we mean something else when we speak of that. It's a kind of awareness of self and others, of experience, of incorporeal processes, and of will which doesn't necessarily involve decisions at all. While it's tempting for me to ascribe willfulness to my laptop computer when it's buggy, I can still see that it possesses no traits which approach sentience. Even the decisions it makes are inane, pre-programmed, and designed to do nothing more than manipulate symbols for someone else to interpret. Computers are a medium, not a mind. We have a long way to go before we can produce an artificial intelligence, let alone an artificial consciousness, and, so far, there's little reason to believe that computing will lead to either one.IMO it's impossible to separate decision-making from consciousness.