The life of a person is a bundle of stories – good, bad, and ugly. Their deaths force us to grapple with the question of which of these stories deserve to be told and why.

John Searle, one of the most astute and original philosophers of our time died on September 17. His enviably productive career – one that influenced an entire generation of philosophers through his remarkably clear, lucid, and analytically rigorous writings – ended under the shadow of allegations of sexual misconduct.

At a time when people are captivated by large language models, it has become pressing to ask whether artificial intelligence can actually “think” or understand what it does. Do such entities replicate the cognitive architecture of human minds when executing our commands, as many scientists would have us b

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