And as you know,I've defended the physicalist conception, according to which all we are are just bodies capable of doing some fancy tricks, capable of P-functioning.
It's also unclear why RIM bothered using fancy piezoelectric switches rather than simple mechanical ones, because they're not doing anything with the technology other than letting you click -- when you turn off the phone, the switches "harden" and prevent you from pressing the screen, but there's no option to keep that effect going when the device is on.