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Symbol systems can't exhibit agency

Symbol processors can never have agency. Agency requries teleology, dialectical reasoning, and free will. Computers lack these traits, because they don't understand meanings, the relations between them, and their relation to the world.

Joseph Rychlak

Note: For similar arguments see the "Can computers have free will?" arguments on Map 1.
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Symbol systems can't think dialectically
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Symbol systems can't exhibit agency
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Joseph F. Rychlak
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