"I want to block some common misunderstandings about……" — John Searle
"I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word understanding."
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John Searle
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19 Quotes by John Searle
John Searle has 19 quotes on this site.
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We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a…
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Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism
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Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and…
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We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but…
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It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of…
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Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to…
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My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business
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In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y;…
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I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand,…
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Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed
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Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it…
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You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.
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