John Searle

The idea that we are living in a computer simulation is a silly idea.

The problem of other minds is not a problem of how to know what others are thinking, but how to know that they are thinking at all.

The distinction between 'what is' and 'what ought to be' is a distinction between descriptive and normative statements.

The brain is a biological machine for producing consciousness.

The notion of 'truth' is a feature of language, not of the world.

The world is not just a collection of physical objects; it is also a collection of social objects.

The problem of free will is a problem of how to reconcile our subjective experience of freedom with the objective reality of determinism.

The human mind is not a blank slate; it comes with a built-in structure.

The idea that we can create conscious machines is a profound misunderstanding of consciousness.

The world is what we make of it, but we don't make it up out of nothing.

The Chinese Room shows that syntax is not sufficient for semantics.

Consciousness cannot be reduced to computation.

Intentionality is that property of many mental states and events by which they are directed at or about objects.

Speech acts are not just utterances, but actions performed via utterances.

Biological naturalism: mental states are caused by and realized in the brain.

The mind is to the brain as software is to hardware, but only in a causal sense.

We create social reality by collective intentionality.

Money exists only because we believe it does.

Understanding a language is not just manipulating symbols.

AI can simulate intelligence but not duplicate it.