at the time there was still a school of artificial intelligence that assumed that a big computer running a really sophisticated program could be equiva

at the time there was still a school of artificial intelligence that assumed that a big computer running a really sophisticated program could be equivalent to a human mind We're talking theory, so imagine we have extremely powerful hardware, gobs of memory, understand the brain really well, and have some sort of extremely high-resolution scanning device. We could build an "emulator" that would simulate the brain's "hardware" and then load a scan of someone's brain onto it as "software". The system as a whole is just a big computer running a sophisticated program but it's equivalent to a human mind. This mind running on a computer would have the same strengths and weaknesses as the mind had when running on a biological brain when it comes to determining the truth values of propositions in arithmetic (and everywhere else).