It doesn’t mean they tie intelligence to subjective experience. Take digestion. Can a computer simulate digestion, yes. But no computer can “digest” if it’s just silicon in the corner of an office. There are two hurdles. The leap from simulating intelligence to intelligence, and the leap from intelligence to subjective experience. If the computer gets attached to a mechanism that physically breaks down organic material, that’s the first leap. If the computer gains a first person experience of that process, that’s the second.
You can’t just short-circuit from simulates to does to has subjective experience.
And the claim other humans don’t have subjective experience is such non-starter.
> And the claim other humans don’t have subjective experience is such non-starter.
There is no empirical test for the subjective experience of consciousness. You can't even prove to anybody else that you have it. We assume other people experience as we ourselves do as a basic decency we extend to other humans. This is a good thing, but it's essentially faith not science.
As for machines not having it, I'm fine with that assumption, but until there can be some sort of empirical test for it, it's not science. Thankfully, it's also not relevant to any engineering matter. Whether the machines have a subjective experience in any way comparable to our own doesn't touch any question about what demonstrable capabilities or limitations they have. We don't need to know if the computer has a ""soul"" to know if the computer can be a solution to any given engineering problem. Whether machines can have subjective experience shouldn't be considered an important question to engineers; let theologians waste their time fruitlessly debating that.
I think you're talking about consciousness rather than intelligence. While I do see people regularly distinguishing between simulation and reality for consciousness, I don't often see people make that distinction for intelligence.
> And the claim other humans don’t have subjective experience is such non-starter.
What about other primates? Other mammals? The smarter species of cephalopods?
Certain many psychopaths seem to act as if they have this belief.
You can’t just short-circuit from simulates to does to has subjective experience.
And the claim other humans don’t have subjective experience is such non-starter.