Stubborn prick misidentified parts of a computer forty years ago, and clung to relevance by never admitting programs don’t need the processor to understand a damn thing. He invented bigotry against robots. His one hit is a thought experiment on par with Descarte saying ‘the dog only acts like it feels pain,’ as he slides the dagger deeper.

A computer could be indistinguishable from a human - it could simulate a real person’s brain scan at a subatomic level - and John Searle would insist it’s no different from Eliza. May we never hear his bullshit touted again.