Editing Ned Block (section)

===Philosophy of artificial intelligence===
Block is noted for presenting the [[Blockhead argument]] against the [[Turing test]] as a test of [[Intelligence (trait)|intelligence]] in a paper titled "Psychologism and Behaviorism" (1981). He is also known for his criticism of [[Functionalism (philosophy of mind)|functionalism]], arguing that a [[system]] with the same [[Functionalism (philosophy of mind)|functional state]]s as a human is not necessarily conscious.<ref>Ritchie, S. L., ''Divine Action and the Human Mind'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), [https://books.google.com/books?id=himhDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA174 p. 174.]</ref>{{rp|174}}

Block has been a judge at the [[Loebner Prize]] contest, a contest in the tradition of the Turing Test to determine whether a conversant is a computer or a human.<ref>van de Gevel, Ad J. W., & Noussair, C. N., ''The Nexus between Artificial Intelligence and Economics'' ([[Berlin]]/[[Heidelberg]]: [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]], 2013), [https://books.google.com/books?id=uek_AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 pp. 14–15].</ref>{{rp|14–15}}