If 'swimming' is simply defined as 'having the ability to move through water', then a submarine that can not 'swim' is useless. Similarly, whether a machine ca

If 'swimming' is simply defined as 'having the ability to move through water', then a submarine that can not 'swim' is useless. Similarly, whether a machine can conceivably 'think' is very relevant. We are asking whether a machine can do certain specific things a human can do and are hard to envision a machine doing. Whatever your response to the Chinese room argument (and more sophisticated variations), it will be a part of your theory of mind that is not obviously correct and will not be accepted by all others without further support.