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Computers and humans run programs differently

A man instantiating a chess program without knowing what he's doing is not playing chess: a computer doing the same thing is playing chess. It seems reasonable to suppose that the situation is similar in the case of speaking Chinese.

Thus, a man running thorugh the steps of a program without knowing what he's doing is not speaking Chinese: whereas a computer doing the same thing is speaking Chinese.

Richard Sharvy, 1983.
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