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

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

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

The assertion fallacy is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.

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.

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