I think the language thing is a special case of a broader breakdown from identity to value (in the Rich Hickey place-in-memory vs concrete-values sense). Sure maybe language turns out to be an alien we're hosting, but the emotions encoded in my guttural sounds and facial expressions and dilated blood vessels are real! But after you watch a realtime interactive simulation of yourself flush its cheeks in anger when you call it fake, are you gonna cast off your own emotions and flushed cheeks as "glints of metal" too? Probly just another Copernican "oh shit I'm not the center like I thought" and then we all move on, but it feels extremely weird for sure.
I think the language thing is a special case of a broader breakdown from identity to value (in the Rich Hickey place-in-memory vs concrete-values sense). Sure maybe language turns out to be an alien we're hosting, but the emotions encoded in my guttural sounds and facial expressions and dilated blood vessels are real! But after you watch a realtime interactive simulation of yourself flush its cheeks in anger when you call it fake, are you gonna cast off your own emotions and flushed cheeks as "glints of metal" too? Probly just another Copernican "oh shit I'm not the center like I thought" and then we all move on, but it feels extremely weird for sure.