[ExI] Personal conclusions

[Gordon Swobe]

--- On Thu, 2/4/10, Aware <aware at awareresearch.com> wrote:

> So at the sophomoric level representative of most common
> objections, the debate spins around and around, as if Searle were
> <gasp> denying functionalist, materialist, or computationalist accounts 
> of reality. He's not, and neither is Gordon.  

On the contrary, I most certainly do deny the functionalist and computationalist, (but not so much the materialist), accounts of reality.

By the way, to make things as clear as mud: 1) computationalism is a species of functionalism, not a theory that competes with it as suggested, and 2) functionalism is not about making artificial neurons, per se, and 3) nobody here in recent months has articulated a true functionalist or functionalist/computationalist account of mind or reality. 

-gts