You’ve stated this point better than I did. Otherwise brilliant and rational people just go all mystical when we start talking about meaningless words like “in

You’ve stated this point better than I did. Otherwise brilliant and rational people just go all mystical when we start talking about meaningless words like “intelligence” or “consciousness”. An animal or a human or a big matrix perform X well on Y task. That’s quantitative and objective. All this “is it smart” bullshit is thinly-veiled “how does the world still rotate around my subjective experience given this thing writes better Tolkien fan fiction than I do”. Performance on tasks. Everyone else shuffle over to the Philosophy department.