Another book from my reread pile. Searle is a philosopher and a professor at UC Berkeley. One of his most widely known thought experiments is probably the Chinese Room Argument, which argues against A.I.'s claim that a computer, one day, will actually be able to think or will become an actual mind. In this book, Searle describes the structure and interrelations of mind, language, and society. He provides conceptual frameworks that support what he calls 'the Enlightenment vision.' (As a quick reference point: postmodernists see themselves as challenging the Enlightenment vision.) There are many who may think that the real world is incomprehensible or relativistic, or that we live in multiple realities. Searle counters those notions with intellectual rigor, while still explaining things in very understandable and real terms. 

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