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I believe my cat is merely a thinking machine by your definition.

No, cats have souls. But they certainly have thinking machines.

I believe your ontology is a naively inconsistent overessentialization of miraculous paradoxes that have confounded human thinkers since prehistory.

I’m trying to show you something miraculous. It simply involves understanding that you are not your thoughts.

A simple linguistic ontology is one of the most perverse, heuristic patterns of thought.

A rock is also more than it's thoughts, and retains some degree of consciousness. Imagining concepts like souls as a sort of litmus test for consciousness only serves to reinforce a thought-based comprehension.

I'm asking you to stop arguing inside "simple linguistic ontology".

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