Brain's causal powers reproduced by a computer
A computational system that could duplicate the microlevel functional structure of the brain duplicates the brain's causal powers. If the causal powers give rise to intentionality—as Searle suggests—then such a system would possess intentionality.


Dale Jacquette, 1989.
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