ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author argues that strong artificial intelligence must be false, since a human agent could instantiate the program and not have the appropriate mental states. He explores some consequences of the fact that human and animal brains are the causal bases of existing mental phenomena. The mental—non mental distinction cannot be just in the eye of the beholder—it must be intrinsic to the systems, for otherwise it would be up to any beholder to treat people as non mental. The residual operationalism is joined to a residual form of dualism; indeed, strong AI only makes sense given the dualistic assumption that where the mind is concerned the brain doesn't matter. The robot would have a television camera attached to it that enabled it to see, it would have arms and legs that enabled it to act, and all of this would be controlled by its computer brain. Such a robot would have genuine understanding and other mental states.'
