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> We can build something which has all the output associated with reasoning.

Sure. A photocopier fed with a maths paper.



I’m willing to bet it still proved more novel mathematical theorems than you did.

What does this say about your reasoning?


Excavator can dig a ditch better than I can, thus it must be more capable than me in every physical dimension.


No. But it is a better digger, and it can in fact dig, evident by the fact that it digs. It doesn’t merely simulate digging just because it’s a machine.




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