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The question is about sensory experience, not goals. Goals in the robot could be prompted in. Goals in the squirrel can be easily hacked using strong doses of opiates.

Go to any American metropolitan downtown, and you can see humans who have hacked their evolved reward system to seek heroin rather than reproduction.

Following Dawkin's the Selfish Gene, the idea that organisms consciously seek self-survival or the survival of their "race or species" is a complete fallacy. The higher order "goal" of the squirrel is to simply propagate fragments of its DNA. This type of "goal" is completely tangential to "intelligence"



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