In the previous article mentioned that John Searle focuses more on human consciousness than the artificial. In order to provide a complete reference to this issue, I give here the point of McCarthy, the LISP language founder, by the Preface of his book "Defending A.I Research":
"On a number of occasions, I have been elected by colleagues and by editors of journals to defend artificial intelligence research from various attacks.
These attacks come from a number of directions.
• Those which claim that artificial intelligence is an incoherent concept philosophically. This is in the ancient tradition of philosophers telling scientists what they must not think about. Hubert Dreyfus, John Searle are examples, and to a lesser extent, so are John Haugeland and James Fetzer. It is often difficult to determine whether these authors are asserting limitations on what behavior computer programs can exhibit or are saying that no matter what it does, it wouldn't count as intelligent.
• Those which claim that artificial intelligence research is immoral, because it is "obscene" and anti-human and moreover caters to the military-industrial complex."
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