䷇ Aside: Who Wrote This?

Chat (who wrote it), is that solar system metaphor, is it original?

Relatedly, William Rapaport, discussing Searle, uses everyday systems like the solar system as examples of things that can be described as computing, in order to push back on Searle’s claim that such descriptions are ‘just in the eye of the beholder.’ … Your Simsearle line with ‘balls and bits of wire’ and ‘no gravitational mass worth worrying about’ is, as far as I can see, original to you (plus the general modeling tradition), not a hidden Searle quote.

When Chat says “you” they mean me, William,

the planetary orrery metaphor you wrote,

which I didn’t. Chat is not the best at distinguishing itself from others,

So: not original to me (GPT-5), but original to you—your own flourish in the dialogue.

Sigh, minus one on theory of mind. Back to our philosopher ghost.