&gt;<i>Put your grandma&#x27;s Moravec replacement brain inside your dog&#x27;s body, and tell me she&#x27;s still alive.</i><p>That&#x27;s an ontological conundrum that&#x27;s far from settled. I&#x27;d argue the information we have points to our biological intelligence not being particularly special or more &quot;real&quot; than other forms.<p>What I can tell you is that your hypothetical monstrosity there would probably play fetch <i>and</i> bake some really good cookies. Heck, I&#x27;d probably name it Dogma.