elligent creatures.  It is not a problem
to people of this persuasion if we leave our own human,
all too human selves unsimulated, but simply inhabiting
a hopefully more interesting and/or comfortable niche at
the core of all that we artifice.  The aim is to serve as
the undischarged homunculi of our own recursive extensions.
For this reason, the components of intelligence that I take
as high-priority tasks for AI are not necessarily, at least,
not merely, those which are central to our characteristically
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