In current [[artificial intelligence]] and [[philosophy of mind]] intentionality is a controversial subject and sometimes claimed to be something that a machine will never achieve. [[John Searle]] argued for this position with the [[Chinese room]] thought experiment, according to which no [[syntactic]] operations that occurred in a computer would provide it with [[semantic]] content. As he noted in the article, Searle's view was a minority position in artificial intelligence and philosophy of mind. | In current [[artificial intelligence]] and [[philosophy of mind]] intentionality is a controversial subject and sometimes claimed to be something that a machine will never achieve. [[John Searle]] argued for this position with the [[Chinese room]] thought experiment, according to which no [[syntactic]] operations that occurred in a computer would provide it with [[semantic]] content. As he noted in the article, Searle's view was a minority position in artificial intelligence and philosophy of mind. |