text: **Computationalism and functionalism**
  
  Computationalism is the position in the philosophy of mind that the human mind is an information 
  processing system and that thinking is a form of computing. Computationalism argues that the 
  relationship between mind and body is similar or identical to the relationship between software and 
  hardware and thus may be a solution to the mind–body problem. This philosophical position was inspired 
  by the work of AI researchers and cognitive scientists in the 1960s and was originally proposed by 
  philosophers Jerry Fodor and Hilary Putnam.[383] 
  
  Philosopher John Searle characterized this position as "strong AI": "The appropriately programmed 
  computer with the right inputs and outputs would thereby have a mind in exactly the same sense human 
  beings have minds."[ac] Searle challenges this claim with his Chinese room argument, which attempts to 