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by cperciva 1816 days ago
The philosopher Hubert Dreyfus argued that computers, who have no body, no childhood and no cultural practice, could not acquire intelligence at all.

Similarly, nuclear submarines, which lacking all of the critical organs of fish, are completely unable to swim.

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Similarly, a brick has the ability to deep sea dive!
The nuclear submarine is just part of our extended phenotype :)