PHLB81H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Multiple Realizability, Type Physicalism, Big Questions
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Functionalism putnam: the nature of mental states and nida-rumelin: pseudonormal. Functionalism: a philosophical worry about functionalism, a scientific worry about functionalism. Functionalism: could it be either (but probably physical, yes (and lots of others things could have minds as well, not specifically dependent on brains. Being in pain is ____ : what is a good answer to this question, bad answer, being in pain is a having an unpleasant sensation. I can know i"m in pain, but i don"t know anything about the brain. Being in pain is being in a certain brain state . Being in pain is being in a certain brain state but our worry in this is: 1) all we can tell is that brain states are correlated with pain, not that they are the same thing . Pain is not a state of the brain the pain is something different. Pain is a functional state of the whole organism.
