I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand namely exactly nothing.
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of...
I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp...
Of all the species of literary composition perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed which is wanting in general history.