John Searle
American philosopher known for the Chinese Room argument against strong AI, stating 'The mind is to the brain as software is to the hardware.'
Quotes by John Searle
The brain causes consciousness, but consciousness is a higher-level feature.
Free will is compatible with determinism in the biological sense.
Social facts are created by human agreement.
Searle's Chinese Room argument refutes strong AI.
Mental states have intrinsic intentionality, unlike computer representations.
Philosophy of language is the foundation of philosophy of mind.
Declarations create institutional facts, like 'I now pronounce you man and wife.'
The background is the set of nonrepresentational capacities that enable intentionality.
Consciousness is a biological feature of brains.
Computers understand nothing; they manipulate formal symbols.
In the Chinese Room, the person follows rules but doesn't understand.
Strong AI is the claim that the appropriately programmed computer is a mind.
Semantics is not intrinsic to syntax alone.
The mind-body problem is how brains cause consciousness.
Social ontology: institutions are systems of status functions.
We impose functions on objects by collective agreement.
Perception is a biological capacity for intentional states.
The network is the set of causal relations that make intentionality possible.
Philosophy should be continuous with science.
Analytic philosophy is about clarity and precision.