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That is the argument we're having though.

The central claim is that a machine which answers exactly the same thing a human would answer given the same input does not have understanding, while the human does.

This claim is religious, not scientific. In this worldview, "understanding" is a property of humans which can't be observed but exists nonetheless. It's like claiming humans have a soul.



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