Reading Time: 4 minutes Daniel Dennett is one of my favorite philosophers. Few write with his clarity or liveliness, and the topics to which he turns his attention – evolution, religion, free will, the human mind – fall squarely within my area of interest. His explanations are often brilliantly clever, and his conclusions are ones I can usually agree […]
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Cracking the Fortune Cookie
Reading Time: 4 minutes A Response to John Searle’s Chinese Room Analogy John Searle. “Minds, Brains, and Programs.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 3, p. 417-424 (1980). In a famous 1980 paper titled “Minds, Brains and Programs”, the philosopher John Searle proposed a notorious thought experiment, now known as the Chinese Room, relating to the possibility of artificial intelligence. […]