Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences

How is Block’s Central Argument against Functionalism?

Z. G. Ma *

California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), 1453 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

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Abstract

Block argued against functionalism. The argument was metaphorized by building a normal body but with the brain of a homunculus. A review of the metaphorization exposes that the argument is inadequate to avoid the weakness of the functionalist doctrine.

 

Keywords: Block, functionalism, homunculi

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