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In our third part of the Philosophy of Mind series, Dr. Justin Clarke runs the Gwartney team through functionalism. Functionalism pictures the human mind as a computer, or capable of grasping input to create an output. This theory of mind paints humans as physical beings, only being able to accept first-person, objective truths.
Do you feel more alive when you feel pain or look at a chair?
Timeline:
Problems With Dualism and Materialism / 2:00
Functionalism - Minds are computers / 7:45
Brain is Hardware / 13:00
Problems With Functionalism / 18:30
Spectrum Inversion / 22:40
Excludes Subjectivity / 29:25