Functionalism

2) Functionalism
Functionalists can respond that the functionalist
identification of the room/computer and a mind is carried
out at the wrong level.
The computer as a whole is a thinking machine, like a brain
is a thinking machine. But the computer’s mental states
may not be equivalent to the brain’s mental states.
If the computer is organized as nothing but one long list of
questions with canned answers, the computer does not
have mental states such as belief or desire.
But if the computer is organized like a human mind, e.g.
with learnable, interlinked, modularized concepts, facts,
and rules, the computer could have beliefs, desires, etc.