When a human being looks at an object, he/she labels the object with regard to its appearance, how it stimulates the senses and its utility. Despite this, the human does not need to know what the object is fundamentally made of, to derive meaning from its macro-state.

A computer is able to assess the structure of a sequence of numbers, words or characters and derive meaning from the positioning of these elements (items, tokens or complex objects) in the sequence without ‘knowing’ what the element fundamentally is.

Consciousness and Computers approach understanding in different but oddly parallel ways.