That's a lot like asking "if the Mechanical Turk only plays chess when the man inside is controlling it, does it necessarily mean it can't play chess on its own?"

Given that there's no plausible hypothesis for how it possibly do that, the answer to your question is yes. There's nothing there.

No, it's like asking "if a part of the Mechanical Turk (namely the chess player) always has to be present to play chess, does that mean there isn't a chess player there?"

I don't think this makes any sense if it's supposed to be the same analogy as your previous post.