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John Searle was a philosopher in the 1980s

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John Searle (1932–), a renowned American philosopher of language, developed Speech Act Theory in the 1960s. His work demonstrates that language is not merely a tool for communication but a means of performing actions with real-world consequences.   source

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Why do I believe that consciousness involves non-computable ingredients? The reason is Gödel's theorem. I sat in on a course when I was a research student at Cambridge, given by a logician who made the point about Gödel's theorem that the very way in which you show the formal unprovability of a certain proposition also exhibits the fact that it's true.

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