Supraland

It does a clever thing with at least one terminal that only I seem to like as much as I do. One of the computers is running a voight-kampff-y quiz on you, a robot. But you are, in real life, a human controlling this robot, so even though you are forced to fail, this experience indicts the test as unfair rather than you as being somehow artificial. So, it uses a metanarrative trick to force you to reconsider the sophistry you have to deal with.

It managed to draw the contours of the philosophical zombie thought experiment without ever directly citing it.

I know its easy to dismiss this stuff as cog. sci. 101 or whatever, but I think it manages to layer a deeper understanding of cognition in a surface level primer on cognition.

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