It&#x27;s similar, but I thought on my first read-through that they weren&#x27;t quite the same. I read the Systems Reply as &quot;understanding arises ex nihilo in the entire system&quot;; the LessWrong reply is that &quot;understanding is copied from somewhere else and coded into the system&quot;.<p>However, thinking about it for a further ten seconds, I&#x27;m not sure the distinction between the two is particularly meaningful.