Even if computers can be brought to a point where they make apparently autonomous decisions, they can do so only because the capacity for them to do so depends on previous acts of human intelligence and human will. The ‘parts’ of an organism that are claimed to account for emerging phenomena lack adequate explanatory power, since the way in which those parts act when and where they do, and even their continued existence, cannot be understood without invoking the process they are supposed to explain, and, in something of an infinite regress, the processes to which, in turn, that process leads.
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