Full Idea
If there are any fixed points in the mind-body problem, one of them is that the economy of Bolivia could not have mental states, no matter how it is distorted.
Gist of Idea
Not just any old functional network will have mental states
Source
Ned Block (Troubles with Functionalism [1978], p. 86)
Book Reference
'The Philosophy of Mind', ed/tr. Beakley,B /Ludlow P [MIT 1992], p.86
A Reaction
It is hard to disagree with this, but then it can hardly be a serious suggestion that anyone could see how to reconfigure an economy so that it mapped the functional state of the human brain. This is not a crucial problem.