[hnfong]

> But the weaker conclusion that you can't simply assume that two completely different systems that exhibit the same observable behavior must use the same mechanism to achieve that behavior does strike me as compelling.

Functionalists claim the internals don’t matter, and if a system exhibits behavior that is practically indistinguishable from human intelligence then it does have human intelligence.

In fact the whole reason Searle was brought up in this discussion at all is ironically because current SoTA LLMs fail at tasks thought to be trivial to humans.