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John Searle was interviewed in the latest episode of The Partially Examined Life about his new book, Seeing Things As They Are. He says that the fallacious arg
by mbrock 11y ago
John Searle was interviewed in the latest episode of The Partially Examined Life about his new book, Seeing Things As They Are.
He says that the fallacious argument that we only see mental representations and not reality is "so bad I call it The Bad Argument."
The interview is quite amusing, and it might be interesting to read both his book and Hoffman's.
- gohrt 11y agoInteresting, because Searle is the a famous advocate for an argument essentially equivalent to the Bad Argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
- yarrel 11y agoThe Chinese Room is my favourite proof that thought is physically impossible.