@cameronjbuckner @Ensifere Mazviita Chirimuuta has a great book review of The Multiple Realization Book (Polger & Shapiro) where at the end she reframes the MR debate for those whose primary concerns are scientific and explanatory rather than metaphysical. (especially Section 4.1)

@gualtieropicc Lots of people have raised that question (e.g. Bill Ramsey). I think the answer depends on pragmatic considerations given by the explanatory context, and especially the robustness of the putative representations attributed (details here)

@spiantado *implicit IN a good curve fit

@neuralreckoning Rick Grush has a great paper on the relevance of this q for comp neuro. and here's a book dedicated to your question

@davidchalmers42 @renatrigiorese i suspect that once we get to mouse-level AI, the distance to human-level AI will be tiny. but getting to mouse-level AI requires duplicating perceptuo-motor capacities that are crucial to mouse function but difficult to make without biological bodies

@davidchalmers42 current "AI" systems only respond to inputs in pre-determined formats (just like mice do, given the perceptual systems that they have), but unlike in mice, those inputs don't hook up to general motivational machinery