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Because the formal symbol manipulations by themselves don't have any intentionality; they are quite meaningless; they aren't even symbol manipulations, since the symbols don't symbolize anything. In the linguistic jargon, they have only a syntax but no semantics. Such intentionality as computers appear to have is solely in the minds of those who program them and those who use them, those who send in the input and those who interpret the output.
This passage doesn't argue for a conclusion — it describes or reports.
John R. Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Programs", Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3(3), 1980
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