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No, and if you want to discuss the philosophical idea, please don't waste my time with dumb questions.

Yes, I think it proves that understanding does not require consciousness.

No, you're still a necessary part of the system, since otherwise there is no interaction possible. And yes, I don't think understanding relies on consciousness.

Where is the semantic difference?

I'd like to add a rebuttal I tend to agree with: You're only a component of a larger system, and the whole system (you + the room + your list of instructions) does encode some understanding, otherwise a chinese speaker wouldn't be able to interact with the room in any meaningful way.

In almost any system, you can look at a specific part and argue that part doesn't fulfill a property that the entire system taken as one does.

Wouldn't it be more sanitary to clean them beforehand?

Fair, though I'd like to mention that you don't need a pot to boil something. It's enough to use sticks to move/roll hot stones into a natural bowl-shaped indentation. Sounds complex, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened at least a couple times before pots.

Yeah, throughout human existence I'd guess that no preparation method is more common than "throw it in a pot and boil it". Can't go wrong with that for almost any food - even if the texture isn't amazing, you can't really over-boil most stuff to where it's dangerous.

And all that while they're off the air? Oh, duh, time travel.

No thank you, not interested. I've wasted too much time giving the benefit of the doubt to people after they misattribute such decisions. It never leads to anything worthwhile.

Unfortunately I can't take you seriously if you really think this:

Are you telling me the people behind the decision to ban certain mods due to bigotry were holding a stance of “we are more than happy for you to publish your content, just not here for completely unrelated reasons” or are we being serious and we accept the fact that the stance is an explicit “these mods should not exist and we don’t want any part of them”?

The "people behind the decision" are business people who were worried about ad revenue due to being associated with such mods. These people don't give a fuck about the mod being available anywhere else as long as it doesn't negatively affect their own bottom line. So yes, I'm telling you exactly that.

The limits of the countries where the businesses operate, and any ethical and moral limits the people behind the company see?

Come on, at least give arguments instead of asking questions with obvious answers.

But there are realistically always some rules on what kinds of hosted content is allowed on a page. Open racism/transphobia are, I'm guessing, not allowed. Why is this a step too far compared to other cases that go beyond legal limits?

It's also important to note that 1) they weren't barred from publishing the mod, and 2) they're totally okay with using said tool in lots of cases where it was never used before - why would they suddenly care about it?