Tag: John Searle

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, conscious states, Daniel Vanderveken, digestion, Discovery Institute Press, epistemic objectivity, Expression and Meaning, Foundations of Illocutionary Logic, John Searle, language, Minding the Brain, ontic dualism, ontological idealism, ontology, philosophy, prose, qualitativeness, Science and Culture Today, scientism, Speech Acts, subjectivity, The Construction of Social Reality, The Nature of Nature, unity, 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, Daily Nous, Dustin Sigsbee, Edward Feser, John Searle, philosophers, philosophy, popular culture, sea cucumber, sentient consciousness, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Nagel}

Farewell to John Searle, Philosopher of Mind and Language

_{Science and Culture
October 2, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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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, computational mechanics, computationalism, computer science, computers, humans, intellect, James F. Ross, John McCarthy, John Searle, mind, modus tollens, Pat Flynn, philosophy, Roderick Chisholm, Selmer Bringsjord, Thomas Aquinas, triangularity}

How Understanding Points Beyond Physicalism

_{Science and Culture
August 2, 2025

Epistemology, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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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
, Br'er Rabbit, 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

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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), Are We Spiritual Machines?, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, brain, ChatGPT, Chinese, Chinese Room argument, computers, consciousness, COSM, George Gilder, Gottfried Leibniz, Jay Richards, John Searle, jumbo jet, machines, Marvin Minsky, Michael Denton, Moore’s law, organisms, Ray Kurzweil, Stanford University, Telecosm, The Age of Spiritual Machines, 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

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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, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chinese, Chinese Room, computers, COSM 2023, 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

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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
, analytic philosophy, artificial intelligence, Chinese, Chinese characters, 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

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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, falsehood, John Searle, questions, self-reference, sentences, truth, words}

How to Break ChatGPT

_{William A. Dembski
May 10, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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

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Date
September 30, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Boltzmann brain, cosmic fine-tuning, dualism, ID the Future, intelligent design, John Searle, Michael Polanyi, Michael Shermer, multiverse, origins science, prime reality, Return of the God Hypothesis, skeptics, Stephen Meyer, worldview}

Meyer: Every Worldview Must Have Its Prime Reality

_{Science and Culture
September 30, 2021

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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What about the multiverse to explain the fine tuning of the laws and constants of physics? It is a solution of sorts, but it comes at a tremendous cost. Read More ›