<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 27, 2009, Gordon Swobe wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Searle believes we will never create strong AI on software/hardware systems, not that strong AI is impossible.</span></blockquote><br></div><div>So Searle thinks a conscious machine is possible, just don't use information (software) or matter (hardware) when you make the machine. Obey that very minor restriction and making a conscious AI should be easy. And to think some foolish people thought Searle was talking about a soul, I can't imagine where they got that idea.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark </div><br></body></html>