I think we agree: it's not that simple. To my taste, a total lack of memory formation is on the unconscious side of this fuzzy, permeable boundary.
And that's just humans. When we start talking about complex software which isn't alive in any meaningful sense, all our intuitions should fail us.
They won't; our intuitions are stubborn things. But they are as likely to mislead as to inform.
I think we agree: it's not that simple. To my taste, a total lack of memory formation is on the unconscious side of this fuzzy, permeable boundary.
And that's just humans. When we start talking about complex software which isn't alive in any meaningful sense, all our intuitions should fail us.
They won't; our intuitions are stubborn things. But they are as likely to mislead as to inform.