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Functionalism According to Fodor and Searle
Measuring the IQ of Mind and Machine:
an Examination of Functionalism as Represented by Fodor and Searle
~ Shanaree Sailor ~
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 not influence anything physical without violating the laws of physics. The materialist theory, on the other hand, states that the mind is not distinct from the physical.
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