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    Exactly! The question is not whether AI is conscious or forms human-like intentions. The question is whether AI–in carrying out…

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    This is a very strange comment. Searle’s Chinese Room, and his general position on intentionality, were controversial, and criticized (correctly,…

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Who reads this blog?

So with not quite 2800 responses, here's the breakdown:

Philosophy faculty member
  32%900
Philosophy graduate student
  30%848
Philosophy undergraduate student
  6%181
Faculty member in another field
  7%200
Graduate student in another field
  6%163
Undergraduate student in another
field
  1%38
School teacher (high school, middle school,
elementary)
  1%29
High school student
  0%9
Journalist
  0%10
Lawyer
  3%83
Doctor
  1%14
Other professional outside
academia
  6%157
Other
  6%161

Of course, I don't know if particular groups responded at differential rates.  But on the assumption this is a representative sample, 68% of respondents are in philosophy, as faculty or students; 39% of readers are academic faculty in one field or another (40% are teachers of some kind); and the non-academic readership is somewhere around 10-15%.  I appreciate all the comments from readers, especially those who chose 'other,' and I find it very gratifying that these readers find a way to stay connected with philosophy via this site.

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