As a poet, he has been awarded seven national prizes in Italy. Functionalism This is an overview of the traditional mind-body debate among philosophers. Dualists claim that mind and body are made of different substances, and their goal is to explain how they interact. Darwinian evolution has been a powerful paradigm across the board. Today, we view the single organism as the product of a need for adaptation and as part of an ecosystem.
Ecological realism is a school of thought that views the mind as a product of the environment.
The environment provides all the meaningful information and the environment is, ultimately, cognition itself. During our century Math has developed a very sophisticated system of dealing with logical concepts. Mathematicians view the mind as a formal system, i.e. a machine. Turing proposed a famous test to decide whether a machine has become intelligent. Many critics deny the validity of that test.