John Searle: Minds, Brains and Science (excerpt) - Thinking Allowed DVD w/ Jeffrey Mishlove

NOTE: This is an excerpt from a 30-minute DVD.
http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2jsearle.html

Will computers ever achieve consciousness? John Searle, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy and cognitive science at U.C. Berkeley and author of Intentionality and Minds, Brains and Science. He challenges the notion that the human mind operates like a computer, pointing out that intentionality and other human faculties are not achievable through artificial intelligence.

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• John Searle
• computers
• consciousness
• mind-body
• causality
• philosophy

[overtjunkbot]

The interviewer missed Searle's cue to get him a drink.

[HeyRuka]

My conscious desire to click the "Like" button led me to clicking the like button. It's so simple.

[roshangidwani623]

@roshangidwani623 found it! = )

[roshangidwani623]

@overtjunkbot when?

[JamesTR4]

@Redshift313 yes, his answer doesn't explain which processes lead to consciousness. Some behaviours are uncoscious, while the same apparent neuronic behaviour takes place. What's the difference? When we are computing a visual signal, we never get conscious access to the individual parts, but we rather get the whole picture after the processing occured. How does this happen? That's the question science has to answer. Although I agree that the chinese room is a good argument, for another question

[BlackSabotage100]

John Searle taught at Berkley!

[oali94]

Searle analogises the brain and consciousness to water and H2O molecules. This analogy works in terms of the property aspect of Searle's monism, but it doesn't work with the causal aspect. The water has no causal influence on the molecules, it's the other way round. The molecules determine the liquidity of the water. The same goes for the brain and consciousness. The physical processes of the brain give rise to mental states, not the other way round; the mind is an epiphenomenon.

[johnalton22]

@DrWhy99 he actually attempts to avoid property dualism. He addresses it in his book Mind Language and Society.

[HeyRuka]

@darklord220 Lol I don't even know wtf, I don't remember this...lol

[darklord220]

@HeyRuka WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE?