Tag: John Searle

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 26, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A. E. Wilder-Smith, apologetics, biological complexity, biology, Chinese Room, creationists, function, genotype, information, information processing, intelligent design, John Searle, Marcel Schützenberger, Martin M. Kaplan, Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalism, Paul S. Moorhead, phenotype, semantics, Stanislaw Ulam, The Creation of Life, University of Illinois at Chicago, William Dembski, Wistar Symposium, Young Earth Creationism}

Information in Biology: A Mystery for Naturalism

_{William A. Dembski
September 26, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Biology was giving us computer programming and symbolic codes which, by mapping functional structures to functional structures, exhibited a tacit semantics. Read More ›

The interior of ancient buildings in the Qin and Han dynasties of China

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
October 3, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Baylor University, brain, ChatGPT, Chinese Room argument, computation, digestion, Discovery Institute Press, John Searle, language, Minding the Brain, ontology, philosophy, Science and Culture Today, scientism, subjectivity, The Nature of Nature, William Dembski}

John Searle (1932–2025): A Titan Passes

_{Bruce Gordon
October 3, 2025

Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Searle’s most famous argument is undoubtedly the Chinese Room argument, first presented in his essay “Minds, Brains, and Programs” (1980). Read More ›

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Date
October 2, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, artificial intelligence, atheists, bats, Chinese Room argument, computation, consciousness, Edward Feser, John Searle, philosophers, philosophy, popular culture, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Nagel}

Farewell to John Searle, Philosopher of Mind and Language

_{Science & Culture
October 2, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

5}

His Chinese Room thought experiment, an argument for why computers can seem clever without having minds, was widely understood among the lay public. Read More ›

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Date
August 2, 2025

Categories
Epistemology
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, Aristotle, artificial intelligence, brain processes, Brown University, cognitive science, computer science, computers, humans, intellect, John Searle, mind, modus tollens, Pat Flynn, philosophy, Selmer Bringsjord, Thomas Aquinas}

How Understanding Points Beyond Physicalism

_{Science & Culture
August 2, 2025

Epistemology, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

A computer science professor shows, using logic, how you must be more than mere matter. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
September 26, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, cancer, Daniel Witt, Francis Crick, geocentrism, heliocentrism, Jacques Monod, James Watson, John Searle, medicine, painting, piano, planets, René Descartes, science of purpose, scientific atheism, Stuart Kauffman, telos, UC Berkeley}

My Briar Patch: Notes of a Country Doctor

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
September 26, 2024

Intelligent Design, Medicine

7}

It took me about twenty years after medical school to break free of the intellectual "comfort" afforded by the mechanistic consensus. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 2, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, brain, ChatGPT, Chinese, Chinese Room argument, computers, consciousness, COSM, George Gilder, Gottfried Leibniz, Jay Richards, John Searle, machines, Michael Denton, Moore’s law, organisms, Ray Kurzweil, Stanford University, Thomas Ray, Turing Machine, Venice}

Artificial General Intelligence: Machines vs. Organisms

_{William A. Dembski
February 2, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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It may seem that I’m picking too much on Ray Kurzweil. But he and I have been crossing paths for a long time. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Cartesian dualism, dualism, Immanuel Kant, integration, John Searle, purpose, René Descartes, res cogitans, res extensa, science of purpose, scientific advance, scientism, Thomas Aquinas}

How to Overcome Scientism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 4, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Philosophy

3}

Descartes is one of the founding fathers of Western science. And the conversion from medieval scholasticism to Cartesian dualism propelled science dramatically. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 9, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Academy Award, Alan Turing, artificial intelligence, Chinese, Chinese Room, computers, human beings, human intelligence, John Searle, Ray Kurzweil, understanding}

Passing the Turing Test Is No Guarantee of True AI

_{Casey Luskin
November 9, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

A person who speaks no Chinese whatsoever inhabits a room full of file cabinets full of questions and answers — all written in Chinese. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
July 10, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Chinese, Chinese Room, computers, English, intelligence, intentionality, John Searle, observer, Yale University}

Blind Ambition — Revisiting Searle’s Chinese Room

_{David Berlinski
July 10, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

7}

For the most part, computer scientists have tended to ignore Searle’s argument and the point of view that it represents. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 10, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, chatbot, ChatGPT, Chinese Room, computer science, John Searle, self-reference, sentences, truth, words}

How to Break ChatGPT

_{William A. Dembski
May 10, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

One problem it has consistently displayed, and which shows that it lacks understanding, is its difficulty dealing with self-reference. Read More ›