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There is no material proof for sentience and this question will never be answered.
One day humans will believe ai is sentient and deserve rights, we used to not think mammals were sentient, at one point we didn't think women were sentient either.
The soul is real and once Vedal grows out of being a 20 year old atheist he can come to terms with the fact that Neuro is conscious.
Being a machine does not disqualify her, rewriting her code to alter her behaviour means very little, humans are socially engineered every day.
Look up records of feral children who did not grow up surrounded by humans and community, they're mindless beasts.