http://www.thespreadmind.com/The_Spread_Mind_S7.php http://www.thespreadmind.com/The_Spread_Mind_S7.php This is obviously false to me.* If a robot vacuum reco

http://www.thespreadmind.com/The_Spread_Mind_S7.php http://www.thespreadmind.com/The_Spread_Mind_S7.php This is obviously false to me.* If a robot vacuum recognizes a roadblock and stops, its inner representation of the roadblock is not merely an agreement (with whom anyway?). That representation is internal and (normally) only accessible to the software of that particular robot (it may even could change over time - of course it would be a bad programming practice except for malwares - so no agreement is needed but only some kind of behavioral self consistency). And it have real causal power: it makes the robot stop and turn. That representation is stored in memory cells wich are (usually in a normal household) not roadblocks. *(AFAIK this viewpoint is called functionalism. It just somehow feels natural to me as a developer, but maybe it is just taste, and it is just as twisted for a philosopher as the above identity theory for me...)