[TeMPOraL]

I don't want to make this distinction. I was just objecting to misusing the "colour of your bits" essay to try and support ideas that have absolutely nothing to do with what the essay is about.

Here, as you say, a cake is a cake, and an intelligence is an intelligence, regardless of how it came to be. We can revisit the relevance of causal history once we reach the point we can assemble organisms from from cells, and/or create cells out of dead matter - at which point the only difference between "born" and "made" will be the Colour of its cells.