In his original 1980 reply to Searle, Fodor allows Searle is certainly right that "instantiating the same program as the brain does is not, in and of itself, sufficient for having those propositional attitudes characteristic of the organism that has the brain".
"Dear all, I know that what you are going through is unacceptable and we are all working through the nights and weekends to resolve this issue," he wrote in a reply to an original post about Google Zeitgeist.
The Guardian sent a reply to the original post asking for comment, but had received no reply at the time of publication.
In a reply to our original paper, Kirchheim criticized what we considered the conditions for a stable grain size, suggesting that our conclusions are only correct for 'open' systems.
Even if one does not find this sort of appeal to psychology implausible, the non-reductive realists would seem to have a more satisfying reply to our original question.
Author reply: We refer the reader to our original reply, which pointed out that no known prokaryote has phagocytosis, and we believe the physical mechanisms that would lead to one prokaryote becoming inside another are so rare that they are a negligible selective pressure.
The original authors have a right of reply to such comments, which they took [31].
If accepted, a philosophical case conference manuscript will then be read by a series of commentators, with the option of the original author to reply to the collected commentaries.
For a different kind of reply to the original objection one that does not invoke frames of reference see Maudlin (2012, 76 9).
But when they saw that reply echoed by many others, they viewed the original reply – that had been praiseworthy in isolation – more negatively.
"The original reply issued by the Department did not address the specific issues in the way it should have done," he adds.
