The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

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

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."

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

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.