Just one sentence (another one titles this post) from John Searle's classic 1980 article, "Minds, brains, and programs" setting forth his "Chinese Room" argument against "strong AI":
"No one would suppose that we could produce milk and sugar by running a computer simulation of the formal sequences in lactation and photosynthesis, but where the mind is concerned many people are willing to believe in such a miracle because of a deep and abiding dualism: the mind they suppose is a matter of formal processes and is independent of quite specific material causes in the way that milk and sugar are not."
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