Logic Breakdown

Passage Summary: You can't be smart if you don't have feelings. Since computers don't have feelings, they can't be smart.

Conclusion: Computers will never be capable of exhibiting intelligence.

Reasoning: Intelligence is impossible without emotions, and computers are fundamentally incapable of experiencing emotions.

Analysis: The argument relies on a subtle but critical shift between 'having' intelligence and 'displaying' intelligence. It assumes that if a computer cannot possess the internal state of intelligence (due to a lack of emotions), it also cannot manifest the outward signs of it. To make this logic hold, the author must believe that displaying intelligence requires actually being intelligent. Look for an answer that bridges this gap between internal capacity and external performance.

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Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

Correct Answer
E
Being intelligent requires the capacity to have emotions is necessary for the conclusion. Negation test: Suppose being intelligent does not require emotions. Then lacking emotions would not bar a computer from being intelligent, destroying the argument’s “for that reason alone” conclusion.
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