"Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem."

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It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts nonetheless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.

— John Searle