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    The absence of intrinsic content in some elements of the Otto+ notebook system does not preclude the system from counting as cognitive

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    • 1.Cognitive systems are individuated by their functional organization and causal roles, not by the intrinsic properties of their constituents (Putnam 1967).
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    • 2.Otto's notebook plays the same functional causal role in guiding behavior as hippocampal memory traces play in neurotypical agents (Clark & Chalmers 1998).
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    • 3.If functional equivalence suffices for mental state attribution across silicon and carbon substrates, it suffices across neural and extracranial substrates.
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    • 1.Neuroscientific evidence shows that synaptic weights and dendritic potentials—paradigmatically cognitive elements—lack intrinsic representational content and acquire it only through their causal-systemic relations.
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    • 2.Adams and Aizawa's intrinsic content criterion, applied consistently, would disqualify acknowledged neural components of cognition, rendering the criterion self-undermining as a demarcation principle.
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    • 1.Brains are paradigmatic cognitive systems
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    • 2.Not all activity occurring in a brain involves states or processes with intrinsic content
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    • 3.Adams and Aizawa's criterion requires clarification of how much intrinsic content a system must have to qualify as cognitive
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    Clark (2010) responds to this objection, in part pressing Adams and Aizawa to clarify how much intrinsic content must be present in a system for the system to qualify as cognitive. After all, brains, if anything, are cognitive systems but not all activity occurring in a brain involves states or processes with intrinsic content. Accordingly, Clark wonders, why should the fact that some elements of the Otto+ notebook system, because they lack intrinsic content, preclude the system from counting as
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