Can Computers Understand?
Beginning of paper
1) Thinking is the hallmark of understanding.
2) Only special machines can think.
3) If something can think it can understand.
4) Only special machines that can think can understand.
5) "Mental" states and their resulting actions are products of the
center of activity (brain) ....
Middle of paper
.... example of a man linking Chinese characters and appearing to know the
language, but in reality the man is just following the instructions given to him
( the program). This example serves well to explain how although a computer can
look like it understands a story, it can do no more than "go through the
motions."
Of course such a definitive standpoint on an issue as controversial as
the capacity of an AI to understand will draw many critics. The criticism of
his theory that I find t ....
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