hom is a computer program existing within the Matrix, displays many of the same characteristic functions that are associated with the brain and human activities and therefore according to functionalism, has a mind.(heil,ch1))

This is where Functionalism says that both views fall down. Both are intellectually impoverished by trying to straight-jacket everything into the category of structure. In addition to that notion, we also need another very different notion in order to tell anything like the right story; we need functions as well as structures. That makes it sound mysterious. It isn't .e.g Consider the concept of a mousetrap. What is a mousetrap? "Mousetrap" is an ordinary common noun, so it may look like it stands for an object or thing, for a "medium-sized piece of dry goods" as one philosopher happily put it. But when you come to think about it, "mousetrap" isn't the name of a certain piece of structure at all. It is the name of a function which the piece of structure in my corner performs. That is, "mousetrap" is basically a job description(jones,86 ch12)(www.nyu.edu)

The identity theory of mind, which emerged from Australia in the work of J.J.C. SMART (1959) and D.M. ARMSTRONG (1968), was designed to cope with both problems Armstrong accepted that mental states were dispositions, but identified these, not with abstract relations between stimulus and response, but with the states of the brain that tend to be caused by the appropriate stimulus and to cause the relevant behavioural response. This identifies experience with something occurrent and actual as well as with a disposition. Moreover, by identifying the mind with a complex internal neural structure, it allows mental states to be specified, not by any direct relation to stimulus and response but by a complex profile that relates them to stimulus, response and all the other mental states that might interact or interfere with their operation.

A second criticism of functionalism hypothesizes that if we could create an android which is functionally the same as a human, but lacks qualia, then functionalism would be incomplete or false. To this the functionalist might respond that we should be able to make an android out of some physical stuff which has qualia (since its type of constituent physical stuff should not make a difference.

The genetically-engineered replicants in the film, Blade runnerare persecuted when they present a threat to the humans on Earth. But the replicants take advantage of their human-like attributes and, employing the effects offunctionalism, integrate themselves with human society in order to avoid capture. if the replicants are considered in terms of the Functionalist theory, would they be defined, essentially, as human?

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Functionalists also avoid the kind of chauvinism that mind/body identity theorists endorse. By equating mental states and brain states, identity theorists allow mental states to exist only in organisms that have the same neural structures that are found in humans and some animals. Functi

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