John Searle on Free Will, Knowledge, and Conciousness

John Rogers Searle is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Widely noted for his contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and social philosophy.

John Searle visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book " Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power." This event took place on October 30, 2007 as part of the Authors@Google series

Searle is very well known for his so-called "Chinese room" argument, which purports to prove strong AI is impossible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
mauz15says...

I just changed the title, I posted it as 'on Free Will, Language, and Political Power" It's the title of the book but not exactly what the video is about. Sorry, bad choice of words on my part.

nickreal03says...

>> ^sjpike:
If I proved that determinism is true, would you choose to believe in it?



I think it is the truth and it will be proven to be such at some point. However I think people underestimates how complex reality is. I think the amount of chaos is so out of control under so many levels that we do not have the mental power to compute what is going to happen next. Although some people are pretty good at it.

But if what I said is true it will be 100% possible to simulate a human with a computer. Although that could have been said in the other case as well. I have not religions belief and I am perfectly happy to think of my self as a biological robot just trying to find a bit of peace in this world.

8727says...

'If I proved that determinism is true, would you choose to believe in it?'

if my brain's processes determined me to do so.


i would vote down just because i disagree with the guy but my brain's chosen not to due to it's physical make up.

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