[adorno]

The real question is if this thing can think

I am 100% certain that the thing wont be able to think. No hardware or software or combination of both, will ever do that.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I am 100% certain that the thing wont be able to think. No hardware or software or combination of both, will ever do that.

Yes. It will be no more able to think than an Apple IIe, Babbage's mechanical proto-computer, an abascus, or a box full of nuts and bolts.

Thinking is essentially a spiritual activity, that is associated with matter.

A machine can mimic thinking, and there is no logical limit to machines in this regard.