[ExI] Searle and AI

[Gordon Swobe]

--- On Tue, 12/29/09, John Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Am I to take it that you are conceding the debate? You say a program 
> could make a conscious machine, so the program is making consciousness. 

Not conceding the debate at all, and I think you make a good point. A properly programmed robot could construct an intentional entity inside itself. Nature did it by natural selection. Why not robots?

-gts