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Ideas for 'Improvement of Understanding', 'Natural Minds' and 'Objects and Persons'

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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 5. Teleological Functionalism

6378	Teleological functions explain why a trait exists; causal-role functions say what it does [Polger]

17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 4. Emergentism

6148	Human organisms can exercise downward causation [Merricks]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

6380	Identity theory says consciousness is an abstraction: a state, event, process or property [Polger]