Where Conscious Subjectivity Is Concerned,

How Do We Get From Electrons To Elections And From Protons To Presidents?

The Reason That No Computer Program Can Ever Be A Mind Is Simply That A Computer Program Is Only Syntactical, And Minds Are More Than Syntactical. Minds Are Semantical, In The Sense That They Have More Than A Formal Structure, They Have A Content.

My Car And My Adding Machine Understand Nothing: They Are Not In That Line Of Business

If You Can't Say It Clearly, You Don't Understand It Yourself

I Will Argue That In The Literal Sense The Programmed Computer Understands What The Car And The Adding Machine Understand, Namely, Exactly Nothing.