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• We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
• My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
• I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.