This leads us to the next conclusion. Once we realize there is someone in the room who understands the Chinese conversation—the rulebook, our AI—someone who is merely being supplied with energy by another man (whose role in the room is equivalent to the human circulatory system, dumbly supplying the brain with the energy and chemicals necessary to function), the second conclusion also falls. The only way to make a machine that can truly replicate human understanding is to make a machine that has human understanding. In other words, to be such a thing and to be a simulation of it are one and
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Other than consciousness (but he's getting to that).
