Classical AI-functionalism is the claim that there is some program such that anything that runs that program can pass the Turing test, that is, can deploy a vocabulary in the same sense in which any other language-users do. And that is to say that a computer language, in which any such algorithm can be expressed, is in principle VP-sufficient to specify abilities that are PV-sufficient to deplo...

as funct/onal/sm. It is my contention that his argument is seriously mistaken and rests on a misunderstanding of the functionalist position. While my primary aim is to defend functionalism from Thagard’s attack, in the process I hope to provide some much needed clarification of matters both philosophical and computational. Since I intend to untangle issues that are often troublesome in cognitiv...

Coloured hearing synaesthetes experience colours to heard words, as confirmed by reliability of self-report, psychophysical testing and functional neuroimaging data. Some also describe the 'alien colour effect' (ACE): in response to colour names, they experience colours different from those named. We have previously reported that the ACE slows colour naming in a Stroop task, reflecting cognitiv...