It's fair to talk about thinking in a handwavey "you know what I mean" way. This is not a philosophy paper. It's a fine point if that's what you want to discuss, but doesn't change anything about the issue at hand and is needlessly pedantic. It's the "what you're referring to is actually GNU/Linux" of discussions about the tech side of AI.
It pretends to be a philosophy paper. If they wanted to talk about computation, they would use terms that communicate that clearly. But they're using words that confuse the two fields. I didn't do that, the author did.
I think people just get mad when they're reminded of this obvious fact. They want computers to prove that our minds are an illusion, the product of a "meat computer".
