I’d rather the Chinese government have my data than the US government. The US government has a lot more power over me.

I agree. I don’t you should have a pet cat in places where they aren’t native.

Isn’t the brain just an information processing system?

Nothing in the thought experiment says that the program doesn’t behave that way. If the program really seems like it understands language to an outside observer, you would assume it did learn language that way.

Yup. The hard truth is that we shouldn’t have pet cats at all over here.

That we created in the first place.

This is why I think that people shouldn’t get pet cats.

Lots of animals live longer in captivity. That doesn’t mean it’s right to restrict their freedom.