Philosophy A-Level
Functionalism and multiple realisability
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The view that mental states are identified with causal-functional roles that could be realised by many different systems.
Topics that use Functionalism and multiple realisability
- Functionalism (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Absent qualia
- Functional role
- Functionalism
- Intuition and thought experiments
- Multiple realisability
- Qualia
- The knowledge argument
- Block's China thought experiment
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