The type of computation used in AI is irrelevant for understanding. If our brains are computable then they are Turing machines. If our brains can understand, th

The type of computation used in AI is irrelevant for understanding. If our brains are computable then they are Turing machines. If our brains can understand, then so can any UTM using any system of symbol manipulation it likes. If you want to define “understanding” to be limited to organisms which interact with their environment, then I think that is an overly limiting and not very useful definition.