If determinism were behaviorally undetectable in humans—as compatibilists like Dennett argue it is—then it cannot serve as a criterion for distinguishing machine from human cognition.

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Criterion (plural: criteria)(In Buddhist logic, valid reasons had to satisfy multiple criteria; this statement mentions the first one): A standard or requirement that something must meet to count as valid or true.
Daniel Dennett(The statement references his specific philosophical framework): A contemporary American philosopher famous for arguing that consciousness and the mind can be fully explained by physical processes in the brain, without needing any mysterious or special mental properties.
behaviorally undetectable(Qualifies the inverted spectrum hypothesis to ensure it poses a genuine challenge to behaviorism.): A difference in mental states that produces no observable difference in behavior and therefore cannot be identified through behavioral methods.
cognition(Interpretation of Kant's use of 'cognition' (Erkenntnis) as pertaining to meaning/intelligibility rather than merely knowledge)

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