"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business."
― John Searle
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Car
More From John Searle
- "I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing."
- "We often attribute ‘understanding’ and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions."
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- "I wasn’t going to get such a nice car – I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy – but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!"― Chris Colfer
- "I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window."― Steven Wright
- "In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it’s gonna be so crazy!"― Glenn Danzig