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Is their anything in Searle's argument that is specific to information and computing? I mean chairs for example are just piles of atoms, and don't really exist without some observer interpreting them as chairs.

(This by the way is a non-rhetorical question. I disagree with Searle on this point, but he his too smart not have a good response to this line of criticism).




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