"There is no inherent difference between the human brain and a computer
system
which prevents knowledge that it [sic] stored in a human brain from being
emulated by a computer."
This is a _very_ strong assertion. I think it can easily be disproved.
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The Turing test is useless here, it's not enough for your program to type,
"I'm hungry" even if it can fool me into thinking that it is a human.
It is vitally important to distinguish between
(1) Fool me into thinking you're intelligent.
(2) Fool me into thinking you're human.
Eldson's claim is about (1); you are contesting it on the basis of (2).
This is silly, the computer does neither, but computers (laptops) do this