But isn't the human effectively programmed in the same way?
(Assuming you mean DNA).
I think there's a spectrum of sentience; that an ant has enough self awareness to be a good ant, communicates with other ants using language (made from pheromones\hormones rather than words), has a concept of time and space, mortality, things and their kinds, understands tool use, understands agriculture (their fungus farms), and even has individual creativity (e.g. no two ant hills are quite the same, each individual chooses which materials to use and where to put each building block).
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No, like everything in our simulation
they are simply programmed by the scientist
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