{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"What Enables a Machine to Understand?","authors":[{"name":"Aaron Sloman","slug":"aaron-sloman","given":"Aaron","family":"Sloman","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"The 'Strong Al' claim that suitably programmed computers can manipulate symbols that THEY understand is defended, and conditions for understanding discussed. Even computers without Al programs exhibit a significant subset of characteristics of human understanding. To argue about whether machines can REALLY understand is to argue about mere definitional matters. But there is a residual ethical question.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/200","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0200.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/200.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/bibtex/200","volume":{"slug":"1985","title":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1985","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/","year":1985,"location":"Los Angeles, California, USA","dates":"","editors":"Aravind Joshi","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Philosophical Foundations","track":"Philosophical Foundations","number":200,"pages":{"first":995,"last":1000},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}