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    A single computational system can realize multiple minds ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Minds are more abstract than the physical or computational systems that realize them.

    A single computational system can realize multiple minds with mutually exclusive cognitive properties.

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    Cole (1991) offers an additional argument that the mind doing the understanding is neither the mind of the room operator nor the system consisting of the operator and the program: running a suitably structured computer program might produce answers submitted in Chinese and also answers to questions submitted in Korean. Yet the Chinese answers might apparently display completely different knowledge and memories, beliefs and desires than the answers to the Korean questions – along with a denial th

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