We often attribute understanding and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

Quote by John Searle

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In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of...

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of...

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim:...

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim:...

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing...

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing...

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality...

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality...

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car...

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car...

I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one...

I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one...

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of...

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of...

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active....

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active....

There are clear cases in which understanding literally applies and clear cases in which it...

There are clear cases in which understanding literally applies and clear cases in which it...

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make...

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make...