biological naturalism

(A view which he suggests might be called biological naturalism.)

There have been several criticisms of Searle's idea of biological naturalism.

However, Searle's biological naturalism does not entail that brains and only brains can cause consciousness.

A version of the latter type has been advocated by John R. Searle, called biological naturalism.

Biological naturalism is a monist theory about the relationship between mind and body (i.e. brain), and hence an approach to the mind-body problem.

Another argument for this has been expressed by John Searle, who is the advocate of a distinctive form of physicalism he calls biological naturalism.

Thus, biological naturalism is directly opposed to both behaviorism and functionalism (including "computer functionalism" or "strong AI").

John R. Searle, Biological Naturalism.

His view that the epistemic and ontological senses of objective/subjective are cleanly separable is crucial to his self-proclaimed biological naturalism.

A consequence of biological naturalism is that if we want to create a conscious being, we will have to duplicate whatever physical processes the brain goes through to cause consciousness.

An objection to this point comes from John Searle in the form of biological naturalism, a nonrepresentational theory of mind that accepts the causal efficacy of mental states.

He also disputes that Biological naturalism is dualistic in nature in a brief essay entitled "Why I Am Not a Property Dualist".

Biological naturalism implies that one cannot determine if the experience of consciousness is occurring merely by examining how a system functions, because the specific machinery of the brain is essential.

Biological naturalism is similar to identity theory (the position that mental states are "identical to" or "composed of" neurological events), however, Searle has specific technical objections to identity theory.

Reductionistic and eliminative materialistic approaches, for example the Multiple Drafts Model, hold that consciousness can be wholly explained by neuroscience through the workings of the brain and its neurons, thus adhering to biological naturalism.