I think Hill is right to wonder aloud about my methodology in the target article. After all, I just ignored the hard philosophical issue of saying what minds really are. I pretended (somewhat self-consciously) that we all know what minds are, and so that we will simply be able to tell when someone has created one, if they ever do. But, I did that for a reason. The reason was this: I did not want to get lost in the minutiae of metaphysics when my focus was on a technological revolution—one with significant philosophical consequences (which is also not to say I don’t like such minutiae in their proper time and place).