Quote Originally Posted by Polymirize
basically phenomenology is just the view that our own (human) psychology is inescapable, and so all of our pursuits of truth have to be done taking this into account.

Something has to account for qualia...

Searle's entire argument is targetted against functionalism/behaviorism... and by default he shows the Turing test to be inadequate for showing consciousness.

Recommending Wittgenstein to beginners is like asking children to play with loaded guns...
Ah! So you actually do know philosophy! :thumbsup:

BUT...I think the debate surrounding phenomenology is a little deeper than that. Most contemporarty analytic philosphy of mind circles view phenomenology in the Husserl-Heidegger-Sartre tradition as very often being trite and meaningless since they do not adhere to any strict, analytic, logical formula in their respective queries concerning issues of phenomena, consciousness, and qualia.

Wittgenstein is good for the analytic soul. A little Quine never hurt anyone either.

Nice quote by the way...:smokin: