I’m not convinced. Imagine that someone’s neurons stopped functioning, and you were running around shrunken inside their brains moving around neurotransmitters to make their brain function. When they act intelligently, is it really your intelligence?
If you’re Sally and you write a character Dave in the detail described here, you are acting as a processor executing a series of dumb steps that make up a Dave program. Whether the Dave program is intelligent is separate from whether you are intelligent.
not really? Dave is virtualized, not emulated. When acting as a writer, Sally uses almost all the same faculties as if writing about herself when she writes about Dave.
I’m not convinced. Imagine that someone’s neurons stopped functioning, and you were running around shrunken inside their brains moving around neurotransmitters to make their brain function. When they act intelligently, is it really your intelligence?
If you’re Sally and you write a character Dave in the detail described here, you are acting as a processor executing a series of dumb steps that make up a Dave program. Whether the Dave program is intelligent is separate from whether you are intelligent.
not really? Dave is virtualized, not emulated. When acting as a writer, Sally uses almost all the same faculties as if writing about herself when she writes about Dave.