It’s as if your own body is a guy that does his job if you train him right, but makes stupid decisions when something unexpected happens. I just take a more literal approach with the interaction. I also refer to him as “my answering machine” when I am woken up in the middle of the night. It took my wife a while to realize that the person she was talking to was “not me”. My answering machine can make perfectly normal-sounding replies to normal questions, but is unable to come up with creative answers to unusual questions, and I have no memory of the events. Another unnamed, possibly separate module runs when my body is alarmed, but I am not yet conscious. It constantly asks for data, verbally questioning other humans nearby, “What is happening? What is going on? What time is it?” Unlike situations with the answering machine, I retain conscious memory of the occurrence, but not from a first-person perspective, more like I remember somebody telling me about what happened, but in this case that person was (allegedly) me.
It’s as if your own body is a guy that does his job if you train him right, but makes stupid decisions when something unexpected happens. I just take a more literal approach with the interaction. I also refer to him as “my answering machine” when I am woken up in the middle of the night. It took my wife a while to realize that the person she was talking to was “not me”. My answering machine can make perfectly normal-sounding replies to normal questions, but is unable to come up with creative answers to unusual questions, and I have no memory of the events. Another unnamed, possibly separate module runs when my body is alarmed, but I am not yet conscious. It constantly asks for data, verbally questioning other humans nearby, “What is happening? What is going on? What time is it?” Unlike situations with the answering machine, I retain conscious memory of the occurrence, but not from a first-person perspective, more like I remember somebody telling me about what happened, but in this case that person was (allegedly) me.