# John Searle **Domain:** Philosophy of Mind / Language **Doc Type:** Thinker Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[The Mind's I]], [[Hard Problem of Consciousness]], [[Synthetic Personhood]], [[AI]] --- ## Definition John Searle is an American philosopher known in AI debates for the Chinese Room argument distinguishing formal symbol manipulation from understanding. ## Corpus Context Within [[The Mind's I]] and this corpus, Searle supplies a counterweight to easy inferences from behavioral performance to subjective experience. ## Relationships [[The Mind's I]], [[Hard Problem of Consciousness]], [[Synthetic Personhood]], [[AI]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]