John Rogers Searle (born July 31, 1932) is an American philosopher and currently the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. Use this quote
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business. Use this quote
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. Use this quote
