<p>“Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain - that is, can not only write it but know that it had written it. No mechanism could feel (and not merely artificially signal, an easy contrivance) pleasure at its success, feel grief when its valves fuse, be warmed by flattery, be made miserable by its mistakes.”</p>
<p>In line 40, “signal” most nearly means
A) symbolize
B) direct
C) indicate
D) instigate
E) vibrate</p>
<p>Answer is C, but i chose D
why？</p>
<p>what does instigate mean… did u look it up, simple vocab question</p>
<p>Yeah I know what it means, to arouse?
I thought it’s to arouse a feeling?</p>
<p>If you still need the answer:
In this question, the difference between indicate and instigate is that instigate is external and indicate is internal. Instigate is essentially to cause something to happen. To indicate something means to make others notice something. One might, for example, instigate an argument (an external effect) by being overly opinionated. On the other hand, if you act overly opinionated, that would indicate (that internally) you want an argument to occur.</p>