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| Nov 5, 2015 at 1:44 | vote | accept | Alexander S King | ||
| Nov 5, 2015 at 1:39 | comment | added | Conifold | @Alexander S King Perhaps you underestimate how strong the type identity of Smart, etc. was. They literally claimed that pain and C-fiber stimulation are interchangeable in all contexts, identical types, almost no one holds this anymore. Lewis showed how rather robust reductionism can be combined with functionalism, this is now called analytic functionalism, perhaps type identity you have in mind is something like that. plato.stanford.edu/entries/functionalism/index.html#AnaFun | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 22:34 | comment | added | Alexander S King | "This is compatible with most forms of physicalism, except the hardcore type identity, which identifies each mental state with a specific physical entity, rather than a functional pattern." This is the part I don't get. I can identify a human leg with a specific physical entity, the configuration of bones and tissue that form a human leg, and still speak about a broad functional category of legs in humans, spiders and robots. If functionalism is to really be non compatible with type identity, as opposed to being just a semantics game, then it has to preclude reducibility. | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 20:16 | history | answered | Conifold | CC BY-SA 3.0 |