Yes but it's (kind of?) a definition as you asked for. At this point, I am unaware of a better definition. I know the Chinese Room argument (and I disagree wit

Yes but it's (kind of?) a definition as you asked for. At this point, I am unaware of a better definition. I know the Chinese Room argument (and I disagree with it), but I'm not aware whether the proponents of that argument have a better definition of understanding other than "well, the Turing Test isn't enough"... --- PS: Interestingly the issue of compression is highly relevant regarding the Chinese Room argument -- the essential element in the Chinese Room argument is that the information is not compressed...