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Question: Could there be artificial intelligence in what Searle calls the strong sense? _____________________________________________________________________ The goal of many artificial intelligence (AI) researchers is to construct machines which can be said to 'think' in the same way that a human can think. Those attempting this feat believe that the workings of the human mind can be replicated by a machine, perhaps not with the current level of available technology, but certainly at some point in the future, when technological advances have been made. Strong AI, as defined by the American philosopher, John Rogers Searle (b. 1932), is the assertion that 'a machine can think simply as a result of instantiating a computer program',1 in other words, if the appropriate program can be written to duplicate human thought and this program is run on a computer, then the computer can be said to be thinking. This is a position which Searle denies is true. In order to...

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