Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters of sexual preference: they are not discussed in public, and even the abstract questions are discussed only by bores.

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

Well, what does "good" mean anyway? As Wittgenstein suggested, "good," like "game," has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this one: "meets the criteria or standards of assessment or evaluation."