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>Am I talking to a literal NPC?
Can you prove that you're talking to anyone that isn't? That's one aprt of the hard problem of consciousness as well. You can't verify any one consciousness' existence outside of your own. You can logically _infer_, like Descartes, that there are more - he himself believes that God is the foremost, and that as such others are relatively plausible - but we can't exactly prove anything.
>Then how could the material being remember or think anything at any moment?
yeah, how does it? Even hardcore materialists still can't explain away consciousness. Dualists just say that without consciousness all that's left is a biological machine. Maybe it can even do party tricks, like talk like a conscious agent's human, react like a conscious agent's human, shit like a conscious agent's human and grumble about how it felt disgusting after the act like a conscious agent's human, but is just an empty imitation, executing preprogrammed commands.
The most hardcore of materialists even say consciousness is an illusion... which just leads back to Descartes saying there needs to be logically something there, for deception to be required in the first place. CQFD.
>but at some point the data received actually has to be stored and processed locally, even just temporarily.
your and mine's definition of "locally" is just radically different. You presuppose it's in the brain; I advance in contrast that it could be in some non-material substance. The data is still stored "locally", just not according to a hardcore materialist's perspective.
>But the axle, radiator or frame are not uncracked (the dying people's brain or flesh isn't miraculously restored), it's just that after stuff shifts around and a few parts are loosened or tightened, the car is suddenly working fine for a short while again.
I've already said my piece about the car analogy, It's fucking awful. The completely fucked and broken computer is a better analogy.

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