i don't necessarily disagree with your conclusion, but the argument is that a computer is a different thing to a mind. So, even if a really powerful computer co

i don't necessarily disagree with your conclusion, but the argument is that a computer is a different thing to a mind. So, even if a really powerful computer could convincingly mimic a mind or otherwise achieve a similar result it would still be a different thing. For me a good way of thinking about this is the discovery of genetic heredity. Heredity was known for a long time before DNA was known. Eventually evolution became understood too. But, before DNA was discovered we didn't know what a trait "looked like" in much the same way as we don't know what a thought or memory "looks like." Without that knowledge it's hard to know if a computer is mimicking a mind or being a mind.