>>Tyson adds, “We don’t think of ourselves as deities when we program Mario, even though we have power over how high Mario jumps. There’s no reason to think they’re all-powerful just because they control everything we do.”
When I was in engineering, the ROM BIOS developers saw themselves as gods.
Just one question, does anyone believe that Mario or any other character in our computer simulations actually thinks about what he does and experiences emotions? I don’t think so but I am no programmer.