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    The inconsistent cognitive traits of video game character... — Carmelics
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    The inconsistent cognitive traits of video game characters cannot be traits of the hardware system that realizes those characters.

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    • 1.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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    • 2.These two sets of cognitive traits are mutually inconsistent.
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    • 3.Mutually inconsistent properties cannot both belong to a single system.
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    • 1.A system can instantiate multiple distinct virtual machines simultaneously, each with its own functionally defined property set.
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    • 2.Cognitive traits are properly attributed to the level of abstraction at which they are functionally realized, not to the substrate.
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    • 3.Therefore, inconsistent traits belonging to distinct virtual machines impose no contradictory properties on the underlying hardware.
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    • 1.Dennett's heterophenomenology treats mental attributions as intentional stances adopted toward systems, not as intrinsic physical properties.
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    • 2.Under the intentional stance, attributing cognition to a character is pragmatically valid relative to that character's behavioral profile, not the hardware's.
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    • 3.P3 of the supporting argument illicitly assumes a realist, substrate-level reading of cognitive trait attribution that the intentional stance rejects.
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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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