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    Supports→The inconsistent cognitive traits of video game characters cannot be traits of the hardware system that realizes those characters.

    A video game may include one character with one set of cognitive abilities (e.g., smart, understands Chinese) and another character with an incompatible set (e.g., stupid, English monoglot).

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    cognitive abilities(as used in philosophy of mind)
    Mental skills and capacities like thinking, learning, understanding language, and processing information.
    incompatible(as used to describe conflicting demands or responsibilities)
    Unable to exist or work together at the same time; conflicting with each other.
    monoglot(as used in linguistics)

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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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