2025-10-13
In Spring 2014 Searle gave an endowed lecture at UC Berkeley on universal human rights. Somehow his opening anecdote involved a lot of carping about the stoner kids who would toke up downwind of his office off Strawberry Creek. Never told him it was me, I was one of those kids 😆 [embedded post]
New York Times
John Searle, known for “the Chinese Room” AI consciousness thought experiment, died on September 16 at 93; his UCB tenure ended over alleged sexual harassment
His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar.