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John Searle quotes: Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

John Searle quotes: How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

John Searle quotes: You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

John Searle quotes: There is no success or failure in Nature.

There is no success or failure in Nature.

John Searle quotes: The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

John Searle quotes: In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

John Searle quotes: Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

John Searle quotes: Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

John Searle quotes: Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

John Searle quotes: I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

John Searle quotes: Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

John Searle quotes: My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

John Searle quotes: The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

John Searle quotes: You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

John Searle quotes: Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

John Searle quotes: Akrasia [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

Akrasia [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

John Searle quotes: Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.