The retrieved literature consistently supports the position that computer programs and AI systems perform syntactic manipulation without possessing true semantic understanding, as they lack sensorimotor grounding, intentionality, and subjective conscious experience.
Papers 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, and 11 all explicitly argue or review the philosophical and cognitive science consensus that current AI and computational models process syntax without achieving genuine semantic understanding, intentionality, or phenomenal consciousness. No provided papers successfully refute this claim; papers discussing high statistical performance or category theory (like 0, 1, and 8) describe functional behavior or syntactic-semantic mapping rather than demonstrating true intrinsic semantic comprehension.