> Shall I conclude that myself and the witness were hallucinating when we got the right answers?
If you were recalling stored memories of experiences that were actual interactions with external reality, and some of those memories were subsequently corrupted, then no, you were not hallucinating.
If you were engaging in a completely endogenous stochastic process to generate information independently of any interaction with external reality, then yes, you were hallucinating.
> That intelligence is not the thing that got us there?
It's not. In both cases, the information you are recalling is stored data generated by external input. The storage medium happens to be imperfect, however, and occasionally flips bits, so later reads might not exactly match what was written.
But in neither case was the original data generated via a procedural algorithm independently of external input.
If you were recalling stored memories of experiences that were actual interactions with external reality, and some of those memories were subsequently corrupted, then no, you were not hallucinating.
If you were engaging in a completely endogenous stochastic process to generate information independently of any interaction with external reality, then yes, you were hallucinating.
> That intelligence is not the thing that got us there?
It's not. In both cases, the information you are recalling is stored data generated by external input. The storage medium happens to be imperfect, however, and occasionally flips bits, so later reads might not exactly match what was written. But in neither case was the original data generated via a procedural algorithm independently of external input.