A THREE PREMISE ARGUMENT BY SEARLE o 1. Programs are purely formal(syntactic) o 2. Human minds have mental contents (semantics) o 3. Syntax by itself is neither constitutive of, nor sufficient for semantic content o 4. Therefore, programs by themselves are not constitutive of nor sufficient for mindsA THREE PREMISE ARGUMENT BY SEARLE 1. Programs are purely formal (syntactic). 2. Human minds have mental contents (semantics). 3. Syntax by itself is neither constitutive of, nor sufficient for, semantic content. 4. Therefore, programs by themselves are not constitutive of nor sufficient for minds