Papert human superhuman fallacy
<p>Sep 2, 2009 10:32 AM  Yorick Wilks
 
believe that PARRY is not a simulation because it “does
not understand”, remains to be seen. It might be argued that they are in danger of falling into a
form of  Papert’s “human-superhuman fallacy” of attacking machine simulations because they do
not  peform superhuman tasks, like translating poetry, tasks that some people certainly can do.<b>
When such  sceptics say that PARRY does not understand they have in their minds a level of
understanding that is certainly high------one could extend their case ironically by pointing out that
very few people  understand  the content of sentences in the depth and detail that an analytic
philosopher does, and a very good thing too. There can be no doubt that many people on many
occasions DO seem to understand in the way that PARRY does.</b></p>