Searle's Room

Searle's Paper

Searle, J.R., "Minds, brains, and programs," The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.

Rooms

• Ernest Hemingway. A Clean Well-Lighted Place. 1933.
• William Pope.L. White Room #4 / Wittgenstein & my Brother Frank. 2005. [1]
• Jorgen Leth. The Perfect Human. [2]

Context

• The Rosetta Stone. King Ptolemy V. 196 BC.
• Borges. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.
• Samuel Delany. Babel-17. 1966.
• Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. the structure of a language affects the ways in which its respective speakers conceptualize their world... [3]
• Eduardo Miranda. Neuromusic. Composer. [4]
  • Andy Miah. Musical Intelligence for the Future. paper on Miranda's work. [5]
  • Symphony of Minds LIstening. 2013. Beethoven's 7th filtered through fMRI scans. [6]
• Ellen Zweig. (The Chinese Room) John Searle. 2008.
  • https://tribecafilminstitute.org/reframe/film/the_chinese_room_john_searle
  • http://mfj-online.org/journalPages/mfj42/zummerpage.html
  • http://www.amazon.com/The-Chinese-Room-John-Searle/dp/B001O516EO
• David Rokeby. Giver of Names. 1990.
• The Chinese Room. (Film) 2009.
  • http://archive.org/details/TheChineseRoom
  • trailer
  • http://thechineseroom.com/
• N. Katherine Hayles. Distributing/Disturbing the Chinese Room. 2009. [7]
• Harry Giles and Joey Jones. The Chinese Room. 2007. Interactive Fiction
  • http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifarchive.org%2Fif-archive%2Fgames%2Fcompetition2007%2Fglulx%2Fchineseroom%2FThe%2520Chinese%2520Room.ulx
• Heather Dewey-Hagborg. Netlingua. 2003. [8]
• Borges
  • Borges and I. [9]
  • The Circular Ruins. [10]
• William Pope.L
  • Biting Through Innocence. 2008. [11]

Dear Gallery Goer,
This is a press release for the first exhibition of art work by my son, William Pope.L,
at Catherine Bastide Gallery in Brussels, Belgium.

The works in this exhibition borrow from many media: pink liquid antacid, changing
stations, miniatures of monuments to the future, mattresses, children's clothing,
fish tanks, drawings and video. Most of the work was made in 2008 but a few special
works date from 1998 and 2002.

For example, my son believes that ideas such as 'childhood' and 'future' are 
sentimentalized. He believes that we valorize these concepts by emptying them of
uncertainty. He believes the real power of these ideas are their inherent emptiness,
not the emptiness we impose. The emptiness we impose is cheap, polite, and 
apolitical.

I do not agree with my son but he is my son and so I recommend him without reservation.

William Pope, father of the artist
Chicago, Illinois, USA
January 21, 2008

Translation

• The New Translation Manifesto. [12]
  • an ever-expanding browser which seems to depict itself...is more beautiful than Parmigianino’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
• The Futurist Manifesto [13]
• Walter Benjamin. Task of the Translator.

OCR

• Tesseract language files: https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/downloads/list

Responses

• http://www.zompist.com/searle.html, Searle's CR
• http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1995/dec/21/the-mystery-of-consciousness-an-exchange/?pagination=false