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    Under the intentional stance, attributing cognition to a ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The inconsistent cognitive traits of video game characters cannot be traits of the hardware system that realizes those characters.

    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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    • 1.Cognitive attributions succeed predictively based on behavioral patterns, regardless of implementation details—like Unix and Windows both running identical software.
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    • 2.Hardware substrate is causally irrelevant to explaining behavior if the functional organization remains constant across different physical systems.
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    • 3.Science progresses by identifying explanatory levels where predictions work; cognitive hardware is often the wrong level for behavioral analysis.
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    • 1.Pragmatic validity doesn't entail metaphysical truth; a model predicting behavior says nothing about whether cognition actually exists in the system.
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    • 2.Some hardware properties (e.g., biological embodiment, temporal dynamics) causally shape cognition in ways behavioral profiles alone cannot capture.
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    • 3.The intentional stance conflates 'useful for prediction' with 'constitutive of cognition,' obscuring whether we're describing or projecting mental properties.
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