- The thesis of Strong AI is not that a computer might “give off” (or have mental states as emergent properties), but rather that the implemented program, by itself, is constitutive of having a mind — the implemented program, by itself, guarantees mental life.
Not enough
This is refuted by the Chinese Room Argument pointing out that the program is defined purely syntactically and the syntax by itself is not enough to guarantee the presence of a mental, semantic content.