to be a british prime minister is to have several “fix everything” buttons on your desk and the knowledge that if you press them then the public will hate you
oliver
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absolutely will not shut up about programming languages (he/him)
![Searle notes that (in this simple version of the reply) the "system" is nothing more than a collection of ordinary physical objects; it grants the power of understanding and consciousness to "the conjunction of that person and bits of paper" [29] without making any effort to explain how this pile of objects has become a conscious, thinking being. Searle argues that no reasonable person should be satisfied with the reply, unless they are "under the grip of an ideology", 29] In order for this reply to be remotely plausible, one must take it for granted that consciousness can be the product of an information processing "system", and does not require anything resembling the actual biology of the brain.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vt464ohreg6sglmnb4cuctmr/bafkreib7njvpicbwcjni6rswqwgiy57rqsjqhpoolwnox7qgy4imj7mhom)
