> This can't be done. Defining "thinking" and "cognition" as machine
> replicable routines leaves out essential features of human thinking
> and cognition that aren't replicable by a machine.
There is just so much unsupported stuff in the above. First of all, Ted does not provide an explanation of how those features arise in the brain. Second, unless he _does_ explain how brains can perform these functions, he _cannot_ prove that machines can't replicate them.