Possessing beliefs and desires requires a biological or physical substrate capable of genuine intentionality, which only the human operator provides (Searle's biological naturalism).
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An influential American philosopher who studies how minds work, language functions, and how people cooperate; he argues that collective intentions are fundamentally different from just combining individual ones.
Substrate(as the underlying physical foundation being discussed)
The physical stuff or material that something is made of or runs on; in this case, the brain as the physical basis for mental states.
intentionality(Philosophy of mind and emotion)
The property of being object-directed; the quality of mental states whereby they are directed at or about something