"We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates……" — John Searle
"We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions."
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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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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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Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general…
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More Adding Quotes
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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding…
— Clara Barton
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Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad…
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You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
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The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
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Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding…
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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's…
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Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous…
— Dennis Conner
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The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from…
— John Hughlings Jackson
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Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can…
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