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1. The view of John Searle on dualism was called “The Supervenience Theory”, which comes from mental and physical aspects and becomes a single substance. Otherwise, Rene Descartes trusted that mental and physical aspects are two different things called substance dualism. Also, he said that there is an immaterial essence which is the mind and a material essence which is the body. 2. George Berkeley’s view on the mind is that the direct access to the mind are ideas and that the ideas come from objects

I sit in the cold wooden desk of the dimly lit classroom and stare at the board and the back of the tall, slightly robust man in front of us as he attempts to explain derivatives. I understand that he's explaining a topic and showing us a procedure that would help us solve the problem. However, I don't understand why we're doing it that way or why he's doing what he's doing, I ask for further clarification. With his back still facing me he quickly says “Hold on,” as he continues to scribble a combination

Title In this essay I will argue that digital computers are not capable of conscious thinking. First I will use Searle's argument to defend my view. I will then explain the features of consciousness that he talks about in order to use them against counterarguments. My view is that consciousness comes from the underlying molecular structures of our brain that control neurotransmitters which in turn creates our states of mind. I believe this because In John Searle's Ted talk "Our Shared Condition"

make human different from other thinking processors. These questions made some Theoreticians to look for answers. They knew our brain is somehow like a complicated computer, so they asked if a computer could think such as we do. Alan Turing, and John Searle had different opinions about the subject based on their experiments. The Turing test designed by Alan Turing to test if a computer has a level of intelligence such as human or not. A human judge is in a room connected to another person, or just

Compare and contrast the views of John Searle and Rene Descartes on dualism John Searle developed a theory where he recognized there is a mental and a physical, like substance dualism for Rene Descartes, the difference is that he held they may be two aspect of a single substance. In the other hand, Descartes beliefs that dualism is composed of two different substances which are mind and body. One is physical, our body and the other is nonphysical, our mind where our thoughts and feelings exist. He

was explored by John R. Searle, in his book titled, Minds, Brains, and Science. The author is a renowned American philosopher, particularly in the philosophy of language and mind, and is currently teaching at the University of California, in Berkeley (“John R. Searle,” 2014). Searle earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Oxford, and has made several contributions to his field on topics, such as consciousness, artificial intelligence, and the problem of free will (“John R. Searle,” 2014). His “Chinese Room”

The film Glory, gives the audiences the chance to witness the close relationship between two very different men: Private Thomas Searles and Private Silas Trip. Searles and Trip started out as men from different lifestyles who have an aversion towards one another. Trip constantly mocked Thomas for being different compared to the other black man. Trip kept on bothering Searles because he was jealous of his lifestyle. Trip was surprised that Thomas talked "as good as a white folk” (Fields & Zwick 1989)

Philosophy and Multiculturalism: Searle, Rorty, and Taylor ABSTRACT: John Searle opposes multiculturalism because he views it as part of a movement to undermine the concepts of truth and objectivity in the Western tradition. Richard Rorty disagrees with Searle about the relation between philosophical theories of truth and academic practices, but he is neutral on the issue of multiculturalism. Charles Taylor approaches the issue historically, defending multiculturalism as emerging from one branch

Chinese Room Scenario by John R. Searle Through the use of his famous Chinese room scenario, John R. Searle tries to prove there is no way artificial intelligence can exist. This means that machines do not posses minds. The debate between those who are in favor of strong and weak artificial intelligence (AI) is directly related to the philosophy of mind. The claim of weak AI is that it is possible to run a program on a machine, which will behave as if it were a thinking thing. Believers

In “Can Computers Think?,” John R. Searle argues that strong artificial intelligence is false and therefore machines cannot think or exhibit understanding like a human mind. Strong AI claims that a correctly written program running on a machine functions as a mind and there are essentially no differences between the software exactly emulating the actions of the brain and the mental contents of a human. Searle uses a thought experiment called the “Chinese Room Argument” to argue against strong AI