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    Challenges→The concept of intelligence does not rule out intelligent beings implemented as discrete-state machines.

    Ruling out phenomenal consciousness from intelligence's definition presupposes a controversial eliminativist or functionalist conclusion rather than establishing one.

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    • 1.Definitions should be neutral on contested metaphysical questions rather than smuggling in controversial assumptions as background conditions.
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    • 2.Phenomenal consciousness and intelligent behavior can diverge: zombies might behave intelligently, and conscious beings might behave unintelligently.
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    • 3.Excluding consciousness from intelligence's definition without arguing for functionalism/eliminativism begs the question against dualists and panpsychists.
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    • 1.Intelligence is defined by functional capacities (reasoning, learning, adaptation), which are logically independent of any particular metaphysics of consciousness.
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    • 2.We successfully measure and attribute intelligence without solving consciousness: AI systems, animals, and humans vary in consciousness while varying in intelligence independently.
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    • 3.Neutral definitions of intelligence don't presuppose eliminativism; they simply bracket metaphysical questions consciousness theories must address separately.
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