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Functionalism According to Fodor and Searle
Title: Functionalism According to Fodor and Searle
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1339 | Pages: 5.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Functionalism According to Fodor and Searle
Measuring the IQ of Mind and Machine:
an Examination of Functionalism as Represented by Fodor and Searle
Fodor begins his article on the mind-body problem with a review of the current theories of dualism and materialism. According to dualism, the mind and body are two separate entities with the body being physical and the mind being nonphysical. If this is the case, though, then there can be no interaction between the two. The mind could …showed first 75 words of 1339 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1339 total…and do not have minds. In addition, a mind cannot be the result of running a computer program. Therefore, minds and computer programs are not entities with the same mental state. They are quite different and although they both are capable of input and output interactions, only the mind is capable of truly thinking and understanding. This quality is what distinguishes the mental state of a mind from the systemic state of a digital computer.
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