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It is not the case that 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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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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Some hardware properties (e.g., biological embodiment, temporal dynamics) causally shape cognition in ways behavioral profiles alone cannot capture.
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The intentional stance conflates 'useful for prediction' with 'constitutive of cognition,' obscuring whether we're describing or projecting mental properties.
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Cognitive attributions succeed predictively based on behavioral patterns, regardless of implementation details—like Unix and Windows both running identical software.
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Hardware substrate is causally irrelevant to explaining behavior if the functional organization remains constant across different physical systems.
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Science progresses by identifying explanatory levels where predictions work; cognitive hardware is often the wrong level for behavioral analysis.
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