Mind by John Rogers Searle
A Brief Introduction
A clear, concise defense of a naturalistic account of the mind that treats conscious states as real, subjective, biologically grounded features of the brain rather than as immaterial souls or as mere computational processes; the work argues that intentionality (the aboutness of mental states) cannot be reduced to syntax alone, critiques both reductive materialism and strong artificial intelligence (most famously via a thought experiment showing that rule-following manipulation of symbols does not produce understanding), and shows how mental causation and first-person subjective phenomena can be coherently situated within a scientifically informed ontology without abandoning their irreducible, qualitative character.
- Published
- 2004
- Nationality
- American
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- Unknown
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- Original Language
- English
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