Knowledge Mind & Language Map Consciousness
The identity theory (of consciousness) articulated by Place.
Jackson's target
Cartesian dualism.
Teleological functionalism
offers another understanding of 'consciousness'.
Staying with the machine running a program' analogy, teleological functionalism
holds that a phenomenal experience is to identified with the biological function
being performed by a particular subroutine of the program running on the brain.
Jackson's 'knowledge' argument
Jackson argues that there are qualia (and so defends epiphenomenalism)
Machine functionalism
offers an understanding of 'consciousness'.
It thinks of the brain on the analogy of a computer running a program. At any
one time, a certain step in the program will be being calculated. It is this
step - a 'calculation' in effect - that is identified with conscious experience.
(Though there is no suggestion that all the steps of a program as it runs are
experienced
Approaches to understanding the nature and implications of
'consciousness' prior to the domination of the computer model of the brain/mind
Approaches to the question Can purely physical systems -
eg computers - experience 'consciousness'?
Logical behaviourism.