Artificial Intelligence: The Potential of Consciousness

John Searle, the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, talked at Google about the philosophy of the mind and the potential for consciousness in artificial intelligence. Searle is widely known for his contributions to various fields of philosophy. First, Searle defined some terms he will be using for the rest of his talk and some types of phenomena. He stated that consciousness is an ontologically subjective domain, but that doesn't prevent epistemologically objective accounts of it. He also claimed that computers have no awareness of states of systems.