I'm disappointed that Searle's paper is still influential, at least out in the general culture. It's nonsense, and at face value, would disprove consciousness

I'm disappointed that Searle's paper is still influential, at least out in the general culture. It's nonsense, and at face value, would disprove consciousness in humans unless you accept some mystic indefinable soul into the mix. Or quantum magic, which is just as mystic.