Functionalism

Introduction
Functionalism was proposed as an alternative to both Identity Theory and Behaviourism and believes that mental states should be identified by what they do, rather than what they're made of, and as such, mostly pops up when discussing concepts like the possibility of machines having the ability to think, because the chauvinism of other theories excludes the possibility of artificial minds being able to have mental states.

Robot Stuff

 * Turing Test

Objections

 * Chinese Room (read about the Turing Test first, it'll make more sense)

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