Many years ago now I sat in on (I was a PhD student, so I didn't need to sit exams etc) a Cognitive Science intro course run by Prof. Stevan Harnad. Harnad and

Many years ago now I sat in on (I was a PhD student, so I didn't need to sit exams etc) a Cognitive Science intro course run by Prof. Stevan Harnad. Harnad and I don't agree about very much, but one thing I was able to get Steven to agree was that if I introduce him to something which he thinks is a person well, that's a person, and too bad if it doesn't meet somebody's arbitrary requirements about having DNA or biological processes. The generative AIs can't quite do that, but they're much closer than I'd be comfortable with if, like Steven and Penrose, I didn't believe that Computation is all there is. "But doesn't it feel like something to be you?" they ask me, and I wonder why on Earth anybody could ask that question and not consider that perhaps it also feels like something to be a spoon or a leaf.