2025-10-13
1/10 In his famous “Chinese room” thought experiment, John Searle (1932-2025) argued there must be more to minds than computation. Let's look at the objections to that argument — but first, a 3-min clip from my 2001 interview w. Searle, in which he lays it out: 🧵 #philosophy …
New York Times
John Searle, known for “the Chinese Room” AI consciousness thought experiment, died on September 16 at 93; his UCB tenure ended over alleged sexual harassment
His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar.