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    It is easier to establish that a machine exhibits underst... — Carmelics
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    It is easier to establish that a machine exhibits understanding than to establish that a human exhibits understanding.

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    • 1.The internal workings of machines are fully inspectable, unlike the internal workings of human minds.
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    • 2.Because we can see exactly how machines work, we can verify their use of appropriate intensions directly.
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    • 1.Dennett's heterophenomenology establishes that third-person behavioral and functional evidence is the only legitimate epistemic basis for attributing understanding to any system, human or machine.
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    • 2.If the same evidential standard applies symmetrically to humans and machines, then machines enjoy no privileged epistemic advantage merely because their substrate is physically transparent.
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    • 3.Physical transparency of substrate is categorically distinct from transparency of meaning, so inspectability of mechanism does not reduce the verification problem for understanding.
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    • 1.Full inspection of a machine's syntactic operations reveals nothing about whether those operations constitute genuine semantic understanding, as Searle's Chinese Room demonstrates.
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    • 2.Verifying that a machine uses 'appropriate intensions' requires an independent standard of intentionality that cannot itself be derived from inspecting the machine's physical states.
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    Some defenders of AI are also concerned with how our understanding of understanding bears on the Chinese Room argument. In their paper “A Chinese Room that Understands” AI researchers Simon and Eisenstadt (2002) argue that whereas Searle refutes “logical strong AI”, the thesis that a program that passes the Turing Test will necessarily understand, Searle’s argument does not impugn “Empirical Strong AI” – the thesis that it is possible to program a computer that convincingly satisfies ordinary cr
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