If You Can't Say It Clearly, You

Where Consciousness Is Concerned, The Appearance Is The Reality.

The Reason That No Computer Program Can Ever Be A Mind Is Simply That A Computer Program Is Only Syntactical, And Minds Are More Than Syntactical. Minds Are Semantical, In The Sense That They Have More Than A Formal Structure, They Have A Content.

Where Questions Of Style And Exposition Are Concerned I Try To Follow A Simple Maxim: If You Can't Say It Clearly You Don't Understand It Yourself.

How Do We Get From Electrons To Elections And From Protons To Presidents?

Whatever Is Referred To Must Exist. Let Us Call This The Axiom Of Existence.