John Searle, ?Minds, Brains and Programs?.Custom

Topic: Reading: John Searle, ?Minds, Brains and Programs?.

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Length: 3.5-4.5 pages long, standard font size and margins.

Reading: John Searle, ?Minds, Brains and Programs?.

Read the assignment carefully and answer all its parts. To do so properly you would have to read the text the assignment aIDresses several times until you feel confident that you have understood it.

1) Explain, in your own words, What Searle?s ?Chinese Room? thought experiment (Gedankenexperiment in German) is. 2) What is it supposed to show? 3) Explain, in your own words, ONE (three are six) of the ?replies? Searle considers as well as 4) his response to this reply. 5) Finally, how would you characterize Searle?s position: is he a dualist? A reductive materialist? A non-reductive materialist?