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I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line ... (more John Searle quotes)
| John Searle (Philosophy Now) by Nick Fotion | |
| John Searle and His Critics (Philosophers and Their Critics) by Ernest Lepore and Robert Van Gulick | |
| John Searle (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus) by Barry Smith |
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