Buzz words do not make magic happen. I can describe the transistors that make up a state machine in very fancy language, even invoking quantum, to try to captur

Buzz words do not make magic happen. I can describe the transistors that make up a state machine in very fancy language, even invoking quantum, to try to capture the full functioning of the atomic and quantum level of what's going on is enormously complex. It's even 3-dimensional. However, if the part I care about is only the implementation of the state machine, I can transfer that to any other substrate or just pure logic. If I'm looking at the "cognition" necessary to swap out the current algae for a new one, I don't need to care about what makes the state machine in the cell function, whether it's the relative concentration of two different proteins, the pH of the cell, or whatever. If the intelligence part of it can be reduced to a simple state machine, the other stuff doesn't factor into it.