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    It is not the case that A program lacks intrinsic intentionality and cannot be the locus of a distinct mind merely by encoding propositional content.

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    • 1.Intentionality may be intrinsic to certain functional organizations. If so, appropriate information processing structures create genuine intentional states.
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    • 2.Consciousness might supervene on computation. If mental properties emerge from processing architecture, advanced programs could instantiate real minds.
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    • 3.Humans are biological programs. The claim must explain why neural symbol-manipulation differs categorically from artificial symbol-manipulation.
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    • 1.Intentionality requires causal history: symbols derive meaning from external sources, not from internal computational states alone.
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    • 2.Mind requires phenomenal consciousness. Programs process information without subjective experience, so they lack the basis for distinct minds.
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    • 3.Content encoding is observer-dependent. We project meaning onto bit patterns; the program itself has no independent semantic properties.
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