Full Idea
Functionalism has been widely criticized on the grounds that it is implausible to think that functional organization alone could suffice for conscious experience.
Gist of Idea
Functionalism cannot explain consciousness just by functional organisation
Source
John Heil (From an Ontological Point of View [2003], 20.2)
Book Reference
Heil,John: 'From an Ontological Point of View' [OUP 2005], p.242
A Reaction
He cites Block's 'Chinese Mind' as an example. The obvious reply is that you can't explain consciousness with a lump of meat, or with behaviour, or with an anomalous property, or even with a non-physical substance.