The marijuana-sniffing dog
The symbols being manipulated by computers don't have any meaning to the computer, because they don't play a causal role based on that meaning. A trained dog can wag its tail when it smells marijuana but is only responding as it is trained to do.

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Fred Dreske, 1990.

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Artificial Intelligence »Artificial Intelligence
Can computers think? [1] »Can computers think? [1]
No: machines perform rather than understand maths »No: machines perform rather than understand maths
The marijuana-sniffing dog
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