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Ideas for 'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'Minds, Brains and Science' and 'The Mystery of Consciousness'

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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 7. Chinese Room

2427	Maybe understanding doesn't need consciousness, despite what Searle seems to think [Searle, by Chalmers]

7389	A program won't contain understanding if it is small enough to imagine [Dennett on Searle]

7390	If bigger and bigger brain parts can't understand, how can a whole brain? [Dennett on Searle]

5789	I now think syntax is not in the physics, but in the eye of the beholder [Searle]

17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 1. Reductionism critique

5798	Consciousness has a first-person ontology, so it cannot be reduced without omitting something [Searle]

17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 4. Emergentism

5787	There is non-event causation between mind and brain, as between a table and its solidity [Searle]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

5797	The pattern of molecules in the sea is much more complex than the complexity of brain neurons [Searle]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / a. Physicalism critique

5796	If tree rings contain information about age, then age contains information about rings [Searle]