John Searle (1932–2025): A Titan Passes

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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). Source
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In Connecticut, Horrors of AI Finally Come into View

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A 56-year-old man, living with his mother in a wealthy New York suburb, developed a “friendship” with ChatGPT. Source
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My Conversation with Denis Noble and Perry Marshall About Evolution and Intelligent Design 

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In our experience, what cause generates conditional logic circuits, and then what cause re-uses those algorithmic programs over and over in different systems? Source
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