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Single Idea 2592
[filed under theme 17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 1. Functionalism
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Full Idea
The presence of a certain functional state is not merely 'correlated with' but actually explains the pain behaviour on the part of the organism.
Gist of Idea
Functional states correlate with AND explain pain behaviour
Source
Hilary Putnam (The Nature of Mental States [1968], p.58)
Book Ref
'The Philosophy of Mind', ed/tr. Beakley,B /Ludlow P [MIT 1992], p.58
A Reaction
Does it offer any further explanation beyond saying that it is the brain state that causes the behaviour? The pain is just a link between damage and avoidance. I wish that is all that pain was.
The
22 ideas
with the same theme
[mind is a causal network of functions]:
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2683
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Aristotle has a problem fitting his separate reason into the soul, which is said to be the form of the body
[Ackrill on Aristotle]
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1718
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Does the mind think or pity, or does the whole man do these things?
[Aristotle]
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2588
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Is pain a functional state of a complete organism?
[Putnam]
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2589
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Functionalism is compatible with dualism, as pure mind could perform the functions
[Putnam]
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2592
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Functional states correlate with AND explain pain behaviour
[Putnam]
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3461
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Functionalists like the externalist causal theory of reference
[Searle]
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2324
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Intentionality as function seems possible
[Kim]
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3379
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Neurons seem to be very similar and interchangeable
[Kim]
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3388
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Machine functionalism requires a Turing machine, causal-theoretical version doesn't
[Kim]
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2530
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Could a robot be made conscious just by software?
[Dennett]
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2575
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Functionalism is behaviourism, but with mental states as intermediaries
[Block]
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2576
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In functionalism, desires are internal states with causal relations
[Block]
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2583
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You might invert colours, but you can't invert beliefs
[Block]
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2467
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Functionalists see pains as properties involving relations and causation
[Fodor]
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8131
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Some qualities of experience, like blurred vision, have no function at all
[Burge]
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3186
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If a normal person lacked a brain, would you say they had no mind?
[Rey]
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3127
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Dualism and physicalism explain nothing, and don't suggest any research
[Rey]
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6541
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Functionalism must not be too abstract to allow inverted spectrum, or so structural that it becomes chauvinistic
[Lycan]
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6545
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If functionalism focuses on folk psychology, it ignores lower levels of function
[Lycan]
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7027
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Functionalists say objects can be the same in disposition but differ in quality
[Heil]
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4759
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Mental states as functions are second-order properties, realised by first-order physical properties
[Engel]
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18419
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Folk Functionalism is a Ramsification of our folk psychology
[Cappelen/Dever]
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