Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 2 of 68
Strong AI as a closet dualism
For Searle, to argue anything else means you must believe in a form of dualism, the position that the mental realm has no causal connection with the physical realm. According to Searle, this is precisely the position many AI researchers take. They believe that their models have a mental life purely on the basis of the right program being executed. Mental phenomena can be understood solely in terms of programs (mind), independent of machinery (brain).