Let me throw in a different perspective. People use a system of epistemic feelings in judging how we feel about the correctness of thoughts we hear and think about. "Truthiness" is a fun example I like to use, but there are plenty, with feelings like uncertainty, disbelief, familiarity, probability, possibility. Delusions can happen when the system goes awry. In this context, understanding is just a feeling we have about some idea, something about our confidence about our knowledge of the causes involved, maybe. You can certainly try to find some kind of analogous process in some other type of putative "intelligent" system that does not use epistemic feelings, though I would seriously question the value of that. Maybe a confidence metric. I would be afraid of people missing the point. And it's things like this where people try to bring "consciousness" as an integral part of intelligence. Andi
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