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    It is not the case that 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 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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    • 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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