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Does Searle succeed in establishing his claim that consciousness is a systemic property?

Biological naturalism, the view that consciousness is a systemic property, is a view put forward by John R. Searle as a possible answer to the mind-body problem. There are, of course, several different ‘mind-body’ problems, but the one that most concerns Searle is the relationship between consciousness and physical brain processes.

In this essay I will begin by outlining Searle’s position of biological naturalism and discuss its key strength. I will then look at some common criticisms of the view, particularly the argument concerning the irreducibility of the first-person. Finally, I will briefly look at the view that biological naturalism is actually a form of property dualism, before concluding that Searle’s claim that consciousness is a systemic property is ultimately unconvincing.

Searle doesn’t accept a functionalist definition of mental states because of the problem of qualia – how can we define the subjective

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