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Ideas for 'Consciousness', 'Consistency and realism (with 1972 note)' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'

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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 1. Functionalism

6545	If functionalism focuses on folk psychology, it ignores lower levels of function [Lycan]

6541	Functionalism must not be too abstract to allow inverted spectrum, or so structural that it becomes chauvinistic [Lycan]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism

6539	The distinction between software and hardware is not clear in computing [Lycan]

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

6533	Mental types are a subclass of teleological types at a high level of functional abstraction [Lycan]

6535	Teleological characterisations shade off smoothly into brutely physical ones [Lycan]