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Third installment. Returns to the Chinese Room to demonstrate that even adding a dictionary (without illustrations) provides no semantic breakthrough for the computer; only colored illustrated definitions give the human ‘something to relate to.’ Conclusion 1: computer programs can perform only the syntactical portion of mental activity. Proposition 4: brains cause minds. Details the staggering scale of brain simulation: ~30 billion cerebral neurons, ~70 billion cerebellar, ~10,000 synaptic connections each (some up to 32,000), 10 quadrillion total interconnections, unique wiring per individual, chemical transmitter depletion, and signal speeds of ~300 ft/sec vs. light speed in computers.