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6) Searle claims that only biological brains have causal<br />

relations with the outside world such as perception,<br />

action, understanding, learning, and other intentional<br />

phenomena. (“Intentionality is by definition that feature<br />

of certain mental states by which they are directed at<br />

or about objects and states of affairs in the world.”)<br />

However, an AI<br />

embodied in a robot that puts syntax at use in the world as in 4)<br />

may not need (subjective) Qualia as in 5)<br />

to permit it perception, action, understanding, and<br />

learning in the objective world.

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