Functionalism in Philosophy of Mind | An Easy Introduction

An introduction to functionalism in the philosophy of mind, including the concept of multiple realizability and its application to artificial intelligence.

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0:00 Introduction
0:08 Mousetrap as an example of a functional concept
1:20 Diamond as an example of a non-functional concept
1:58 Description of functionalism in the philosophy of mind
2:12 Alien example of functionalism and multiple realizability
3:27 Functionalism and multiple realizability applied to AI (artificial intelligence)
3:57 Objections to functionalism

Further Reading

The mousetrap and diamond comparison is from Thomas Polger’s excellent entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Functionalism”.
https://iep.utm.edu/functism/

For more about multiple realizability see William Jaworski’s “Mind and Multiple Realizability,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
https://iep.utm.edu/mult-rea/

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