Functionalism and the machine model

pp. 93-115

in: D. M. Brooks, The unity of the mind, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1994

Abstract

I have argued that the mind is a machine on the grounds that the explanation of the contents of our consciousness requires the positing of mechanisms whose workings we are not aware of and that if it is a machine we get an adequate accoimt of mental unity. These arguments are not conclusive.