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"... the programmed computer understands the stories and that the program in some sense explains human understanding." (P 279b)
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"... in the example ... I do not understand a word of the Chinese stories." (P 279b)
"... the computer and its program do not provide sufficient conditions of understanding since the computer and the program are functioning and there is no understanding." (P 279b)
"As long as the program is defined in terms of computational operations on purely formally defined elements, what the example suggests is that these by themselves have no interesting connection with understanding." (P 280a)
"whatever purely formal principles you put into the computer, they will not be sufficient for understanding, since a human will be able to follow the formal principles without understanding anything." (P 280a)
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