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    It is not the case that Searle's argument that anything mapping onto a formal system is a formal system fails as applied to minds

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    • 1.An implementing system must satisfy the right counterfactuals to count as instantiating a program
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    • 2.Searle's argument ignores the counterfactual requirements on implementing systems
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    • 3.Minds are not merely formal systems in Searle's trivial sense because genuine implementation requires causal powers, not just interpretive mapping
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