[smitty1e]

> saying that computers can't actually play chess. It's just a well trained excel spreadsheet. But they don't actually play the game.

The code has no epistemological grasp of whether it's playing chess or calculating hurricane paths.

We are body, mind, and soul. Externalizing the mental rules of $ACTVITY into silicon for execution does not grant a soul to that silicon.

One might argue that coding chess for a computer is only "good" insofar as it helps the coder understand the problem space, or maybe produces better training tools for humans.

Computation is a means, not an end.