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Can Computers Understand?

Statistics

Counts

Total Pages: 1.51
Total Words: 378
Total Characters: 1910
Number of Sentences: 24

Averages

Words per Sentences: 15.75
Characters per Words: 5.05

Readability

Flesch Reading Ease: 56.56
Fog Scale Level: 12.86
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 9.28

Can Computers understand?

        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).
        6) To understand, thoughts must be produced by the brain.
        7) A computer's mental states and events are controlled by a program.
        8) The program is not a product of the computer.
        9) A computer does not produce "thoughts" in its brain.
        10) A computer cannot understand.

        John Searle addresses the point of the ability of Artificial
Intelligence (AI) to understand, in Mind Brains, and Programs.  His main
argument is that because AI's are computers and computers have no thoughts of
their own, they cannot understand.  Any actions being performed to simulate
behavior are confined by the programs available to the computer.  He presents
the 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 hi...

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