>>49609927>Youkai are just Chinese roomsFirst of all, should this be true, it still doesn't matter for my point. Even if youkai produced outputs without understanding them, the receiving human would instill some sense to those outputs out of expectation for there to be some meaning. At the very least some youkai produce facsimile of
>>49608736>intellectual pleasures and sophisticated courtshipon the level neither fairies nor current gen-AI can't approach, which should be more than enough to keep up such illusion unless you discard youkai' actions as devoid of personal meaning a priori.
Second of all, this is untrue. There is extensive talk in SoPM about the fact that at least Gensokyo youkai are self-defining, with unspecified strength and extend. It might be rather weak when compared to whatever habits they developed over all those centuries in the Outside World, but they are actively changing.
Finally, this assumes that collective human belief in the Outside World worked on information basis, rather than on ontological basis. With the former, youkai acted or spoke according to whatever predictive algorithm human belief created for them, like AI. For the latter, if collective human belief was that such and such youkai had a qualite, e.g. free will like humans, than that youkai obtained that quality.
