Tag: John Searle (1932-2025)

Information Symbol on Wooden Floor Against Wall

^{Type
post

Georgios Mappouras
Date
August 20, 2026

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Information Theory

Tagged
Charalambos Rossides, Chinese Room thought experiment, Finctional information, functional information, John Searle (1932-2025), Origin of information, Origin of life, Origin of meaning, Randomness (and information), Sam Altman}

One Question to Rule Them All: The Origin of Functional Information

_{Information is not meaningful simply because it exists or because it is improbable. It becomes meaningful only if there exists a system that can interpret it and use it to perform a function} _{Georgios Mappouras
August 20, 2026

20

Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Information Theory}

A computer system can be generally intelligent (AGI) only if it can generate genuinely new functional information, not merely transfer it.

Philosopher of Mind and Language John Searle Has Died

_{His Chinese Room thought experiment, an argument for why computers can seem clever without having minds, was widely understood among the lay public} _{News
September 30, 2025

4

Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

The Chinese Room thought experiment helped us see the nature of computation, as opposed to human thinking.