[nightski]

If a human can translate perfectly without understanding the conversation, then that to me implies that the mind itself gives no innate intelligence similar to the computer. It must be taught the meaning of things, exactly as a computer would need to be. I'm just not following his logic, it feels like a straw man. Of course the computer doesn't understand the meaning of the symbols it is translating, because it was never given data to teach it that (similar to a human in the scenario).