If “you” completely control your “home,” then it’s more natural to think of the home & occupant as a single agent, whose sensorium is its interface with an external world it doesn’t totally control—the “home” is just a sort of memory that can traversed or altered by a homunculus modeled on natural humans.
I think this is a reasonable way to look at it. But the point is that you identify with (and care morally about the inputs to) the homunculus. From the homunculus’ perspective you are just in a room talking with a friend. From the (home+occupant)’s perspective you are communicating very rapidly with your friend’s (home+occupant).
If “you” completely control your “home,” then it’s more natural to think of the home & occupant as a single agent, whose sensorium is its interface with an external world it doesn’t totally control—the “home” is just a sort of memory that can traversed or altered by a homunculus modeled on natural humans.
I think this is a reasonable way to look at it. But the point is that you identify with (and care morally about the inputs to) the homunculus. From the homunculus’ perspective you are just in a room talking with a friend. From the (home+occupant)’s perspective you are communicating very rapidly with your friend’s (home+occupant).