Quotes by John Searle

John Searle

“Akrasia” [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

France

Weakness

Wine

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

Belief

Intentionality

Utterance

Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard…Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill…At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.

Childhood

Science

Technology

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that’s in general a feature of intellectually active places.

Body

Elements

Thinking

Darwin’s greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality

Achievement

Animal

Ideas

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

Materialism

Problem

Study

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

Election

President

Proton

I want to block some common misunderstandings about “understanding”: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word “understanding.”

Block

Understanding

Want

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

Arguing

Car

Machines

If you can’t say it clearly, you don’t understand it yourself

Ifs

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Abstract

Achievement

Analysis

Animal

Appearance

Arguing

Assessment

Awareness

Axioms

Baby

Belief

Believe

Block

Body

Brain

Calling

Car

Childhood

Common Sense

Computer

Confusing

Conscious

Consciousness

Cutting

Decision

Digital

Dog

Effort

Election

Elements

Ends

Essence

Example

Existence

Expression

France

Games

Ice

Ideas

Ifs

Intentionality

Knowledge

Limits

Lines

Machines

Materialism

Matter

Mean

Mind

Numbers

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Quotes by John Searle

John Searle

“Akrasia” [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that’s in general a feature of intellectually active places.

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

I want to block some common misunderstandings about “understanding”: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word “understanding.”

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

If you can’t say it clearly, you don’t understand it yourself

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