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• 9 September 2026

  « The Mystery of Consciousness » (John R. Searle, 1997) — compte-rendu par chapitre et revue de la littérature récente

  If you are reading Searle's 1997 book, this chapter-by-chapter report and annotated 2025 literature review keep pace with it.

  Detailed report, in French, on John R. Searle's The Mystery of Consciousness (1997): chapter-by-chapter account with paginated quotations, relation to the companion papers (Chalmers 1995, Araujo 2013), critical assessment, and an annotated review of the recent literature — obituaries of Searle and Dennett, the 2025 Nature adversarial collaboration, the Chinese room in the age of large language models, indicators of AI consciousness — with typed and dated sources.

• 9 September 2026

  « The Mystery of Consciousness » (Searle, 1997) — synthèse du livre et de ses commentaires

  If you want to see where the science of consciousness chose its questions, one philosopher graded six rival theories in 1997 — a two-page synthesis.

  Two-page synthesis, in French, of John R. Searle's The Mystery of Consciousness (1997): the book and its biological naturalism, the six positions reviewed (Crick, Edelman, Penrose, Dennett, Chalmers, Rosenfield) in one line each, the commentators (Araujo 2013, the 2025 adversarial test of IIT and GNWT, the Chinese room and large language models), and what to keep.