<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail-"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_5764457968043047266gmail-m_7087015708314097076WordSection1"><span class="gmail-m_5764457968043047266gmail-"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​>> ​</div>Dave I no longer really understand the definition of really understanding.<br><u></u><p></p></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>It's not trivial but:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Understanding</a></div><div><br></div><div>Is pretty good.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It says one understands something if " one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object". If the object is a book and a computer can answer questions about it better than a human then it has dealt adequately with it and thus understands it, or at least understands it better than a human.</div>
<p class="gmail-p1"> John K Clark </p><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>