Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my…

- John Searle

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

- John Searle

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

- John Searle

It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the res…

- John Searle

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean someth…

- John Searle

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

- John Searle

There is no success or failure in Nature.

- John Searle

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

- John Searle

Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism

- John Searle