Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

1970 "Death" Nous pp. 1970 "Armstrong on the Mind" Philosophical Review pp.  112-6.

His main areas of philosophical interest are philosophy of mind political philosophy and ethics. Continuing his critique of reductionism he is the author of Mind and Cosmos (2012) in which he argues against a reductionist view and specifically the neo-Darwinian view of the emergence of consciousness.