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Hmmm...  Searle thinks that consciousness is not just result of the 
*structure* of the brain but the result of the *material* out of which
the brain is made.  Now if you look at modern physics, it seems more and
more likely that there is no such thing as material substance - that
everything is some kind of structure, that a formal mathematical 
description is the ONLY meaningful way of looking at the universe.
This would seem to pose some serious problems for Searle's argument.

If the universe is "purely syntactic" (whatever that means), then 
obviously all parts of it are "purely syntactic", and by Searle's 
argument can't have any semantics and therefore can't be conscious.

Danny.