Philosophy A-Level
Functional role
What Functional role means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Functional role
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What typically causes a mental state, what it typically causes, and how it interacts with other states, rather than its physical make-up.
Topics that use Functional role
- Functionalism (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Absent qualia
- Functionalism
- Functionalism and multiple realisability
- Intuition and thought experiments
- Multiple realisability
- Qualia
- The knowledge argument
- Block's China thought experiment
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