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The argument is directed at the view that formal computations on symbols can produce thought.
A second and related argument is that it is impossible for matter and motion to produce thought and consciousness.
It is useful for teaching different topics like transcription and translation and includes interesting information which would produce thought, debate, critical thinking etc. [FUp1].
Clearly, however, under cover of rejecting Lucretius's general causal principle, Hume has established that a priori it is not impossible for matter and motion to produce thought and consciousness.
On the contrary, not only is it a priori possible for matter to be as "active" as thought and consciousness, and actually produce thought and consciousness, this is exactly what we discover from experience (T, 1.4.5.31/248 9).
Herein lies the crux of the approach, that the patterns that can and will be found in the vast stores of search data are actually good enough proxies for the process of thought that they can be leveraged to then turn around and produce thought and some simulacrum of consciousness.
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