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

    Cognitive traits are properly attributed to the level of abstraction at which they are functionally realized, not to the substrate.

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    • 1.Multiple physical substrates (biological, silicon, quantum) can implement identical functional organizations and produce identical cognitive outputs.
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    • 2.Identity conditions for mental states track functional roles and causal relations, not material composition, as evidenced by thought experiments like inverted qualia.
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    • 3.Scientific explanation of cognition succeeds by abstracting away substrate details to reveal general principles, suggesting cognition exists at that level.
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    • 1.Substrate properties (temporal dynamics, energy constraints, noise characteristics) causally determine which functional organizations are actually realizable.
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    • 2.Consciousness and intentionality may intrinsically depend on specific physical properties like biological integration that no functional description captures.
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    • 3.Attributing cognition only to abstraction levels risks treating functionally identical but causally inert descriptions as genuinely explanatory of real phenomena.
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