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Ep283 - John Searle | Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence

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Cognitive Science Is Not a Lecture About Economics

Many of the crucial concepts in cognitive science have as their reference phenomena that are observer relative and not observer independent. This is not a lecture about economics. They're totally different because the stuff in economics contains an element of ontological subjectivity and when the subjectivity changes the whole thing collapses. Okay. I want everything to sound so obvious. You think, why does this guy bore us with these platitudes? Why did he say something controversial? Now I'm going to go and talk about some intellectual history. Many years ago before any of you were born, a new discipline was born. It was called cognitive science and it was founded by a whole bunch of us who got sick of behaviorism

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