Minds, Brains And Science by John Rogers Searle
The 1984 Reith Lectures
A sustained critique of computationalist and reductionist accounts of the mind, arguing that conscious, intentional states are biological phenomena caused by neurobiological processes and possess an irreducible first-person, qualitative character; through thought experiments and analytic argument (notably the argument that syntax alone cannot produce semantics) the author rejects strong AI, challenges identity theory and functionalism, and defends a form of biological naturalism that preserves the causal reality and explanatory distinctiveness of mental phenomena.
- Published
- 1984
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 112
- Original Language
- English
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