 Searle maintained that even if one was to see a written statement with no knowledge of authorship it would still be impossible to escape the question of intentionality, because "a meaningful sentence is just a standing possibility of the (intentional) speech act".For Searle, ascribing intentionality to a statement was a basic requirement for attributing it any meaning at all.Building upon his views about intentionality, Searle presents a view concerning consciousness in his book "The Rediscovery of the Mind" (1992).