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| Searle claims his Chinese Room argument demonstrates the impossibility of machine consciousness due to a lack of qualia. Dennet argues that qualia are defined operationally and reductively. | |
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| Neither seem to address the explanatory gap. Merely asserting a lack of qualia does not satisfy, nor does asserting reductivism without constructive proof. What, then, are we to believe? | |
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Unable to solve the fundamental philosophical problem of consciousness, Ralph did not notice the presence of the helium-filled squirrel until it was too late.
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