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>The specific argument suggests a tiny homunculus who lives in your head and and understands English.

I don't see how you are getting that from anything Searle says.

> The biologist argument requires something special in organic chemistry, something unknown, that is incompatible with other physics?

We can't know at our present level of understanding whether or not it will be compatible with current physics. But anyway, perhaps current physics will need some revision before we can understand consciousness. It's hard to rule out any possibility at present.




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