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John Searle

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.

John Searle

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John Searle is saying that when we say machines like cars or adding machines "understand" something, we are only using a figure of speech or comparing them to humans, not showing real understanding. This means calling machines intelligent based on these comparisons does not actually prove they have cognitive abilities.

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