People do this thing with computers, intelligence, consciousness... where they attribute it to things that clearly don't have those qualities. If the universe

People do this thing with computers, intelligence, consciousness... where they attribute it to things that clearly don't have those qualities. If the universe is a computer, I need a new word to describe the tool I'm using - what I normally call "a computer". OTOH, if you call a smartphone a computer, I might have to make some slight modifications to my internal definition, but I can accept that it's technically a computer too - but "the universe"? What are we talking about at this point... Panpsychism puts forth that "consciousness" is in everything. But that abandons what I mean when I say I'm conscious. Maybe a rock is "conscious", but what I mean by consciousness are things like Donald Hoffman's aroma of coffee, the sound of a drop of water, the feeling of being late to a meeting - those kinds of sensations that wouldn't (couldn't) manifest in a rock. LLM chatbot companies are calling it "AI" - abandoning the meaning of what we usually mean by intelligence, which is information awareness, not merely its recitation. Useful conversations nonetheless, but I think different buzzwords could be chosen or even invented to link celestial processes to computational ones - unless there's some agenda, like setting out to prove Simulation Theory or something (which has other problems).