The Island Of Beak-Topia

In the island of Beak-topia, resides a countless number of birds. To search for food, some fly above the trees, like the toucan, while others swim underneath the island, like the penguin. To hang out with their friends, some get up really early, like the rooster, and some wait until others go to bed, like the owl. All the birds on the island are different, but we still call them birds. There are four basic things that all of these types of birds have in common. They all have beaks, wings, feathers, and can lay eggs.
There is one woodpecker on the island named Charlie. Charlie is one of the smaller birds on the island and because of this, he gets bullied far more often than any other bird. One day, a couple of bird bullies shoved Charlie off of a tree branch. He landed right on his beak, which shattered into a hundred pieces. Without a beak, Charlie felt less like a bird. Without his …show more content…
Machine functionalism describes the relationship between the brain and mind as such, the brain is the input source of the later output mind. Now, this explanation is very general and only describes how one would get from point A to point C. Point B or the events that take place to get from the input to the output are related to the cognitive system mentioned earlier. Point B in machine functionalism is a straight line. This means whatever Point A is, it MUST then result in point C. This is what makes this type of functionalism so machine-like, the theory upholds the view that our mind operates on values which are then computed and brought out through our motor functions. In Beak-topia, Charlie’s beak allows him to have the same input function (eating and pecking) as a beak of another bird on the island. Therefore, the output for both beaks, Charlie, and other bird, are the same. This is why Charlie’s beak can be classified as a real