The Problem With Functionalism in Neuroscience

Leibniz's brilliant little theory helps us at least avoid making a kind of mistake, which I think a lot of people today make. Mark mentioned functionalism, could treat it strictly as causality, you could treat it as emergence. It still doesn't sufficiently answer the question of how mind can act on the body. We came up with these mental terms partly because of self-reflection, where we're sort of creating this new sphere and we're giving names to things that are happening. Maybe we're not even willing them to happen.