Not the parent and not a “dualist”, but I sometimes like to engage in thought experiments comparing us to intelligent entities on a webpage that have been given

Not the parent and not a “dualist”, but I sometimes like to engage in thought experiments comparing us to intelligent entities on a webpage that have been given access to a REPL on their current context: We discovered document.body.innerHTML (dna?), and perhaps have found a way to establish a debugger connection too (eeg/ekg/etc?). We can see that various sequences of token inputted to the REPL correspond to reproducible outputs (gene engineering), but we have no real understanding how it all works under the covers. That is, we don’t know anything of the miles of renderer/OS/hardware/physics stack that makes it all possible. Importantly to this discussion, we don’t know anything about a funny little sequence called XMLHttpRequest. We see it all over the place and can easily see how particular behaviors correspond to the sequence being invoked, but as far as we can tell it doesn’t act all that differently to any of the other token sequences we test, being perhaps most similar to Math.random, with the exception that it takes a seed as input.