Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
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Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.John Searle
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
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There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.
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In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.
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We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
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I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
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