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Ep. 218: The Hard Problem of Consciousness (Chalmers et al) (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Functionalist Account of a Mental State

If you understand computer programming at all, you can see how give output of, say, this thing or play the voice file. And that's all a matter of you're setting up certain structures through the programming code. Likewise, it might seem very strange that if we have a commander data, we have an intelligent seeming robot who you ask, are you in pain? Well, that is behaviorism.

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