> So if the disk isn't alive, the file on it isn't alive, the inference software is not alive - then what are you saying is alive and thinking?

“So if the severed head isn’t alive, the disembodied heart isn’t alive, the jar of blood we drained out isn’t alive - then what are you saying is alive and thinking?”

- Some silicon alien life forms somewhere debating whether the human life form they just disassembled could ever be alive and thinking

Just because you saw a "HA - He used an argument that I can compare to a dead human" does not make your argument strong - there are many differences from a file on a computer vs a murdered human that will never come back and think again.