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azakai | on: Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
What about the cognitive capacity of understanding?
root_axis | parent
The use of the term "understanding" in the quote you mentioned is a claim about metaphysics, not cognitive capacity.
hodgehog11 | root | parent
From Merriam-Webster:

cognitive: as in reasonable; of, relating to, or involving conscious mental activities (such as thinking, *understanding*, learning, and remembering)