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    Challenges→Blockhead is not a nomic or physical possibility, even if Blockhead is a logical possibility.

    Block's original 1981 presentation explicitly concedes Blockhead's practical infeasibility while insisting this is irrelevant to the conceptual point about behaviorism and mentality.

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    Key Terms

    Block(the philosopher whose ideas are being referenced)
    Ned Block, a contemporary philosopher who made important distinctions about different types of consciousness and how they work differently in the mind.
    Blockhead(Used as a philosophical objection to the Turing Test as a criterion for intelligence)
    A hypothetical system that passes the Turing Test purely by look-up table rather than genuine intelligence.
    Conceptual point(The distinction Block is making between what's theoretically true versus what's practically possible)
    An argument about how ideas or definitions logically work together, rather than about practical real-world facts.
    Mentality(in philosophy of mind)
    The realm of all mental things—thoughts, feelings, experiences, and anything related to the mind.

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    behaviorism
    The view that there is no more to having mental states than being disposed to behave in certain ways.

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