Quote: functionalism treats mental states as causes of behavior; a mental event is a network of causal relations between inputs, outputs, and states

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Functionalism as a distinctive position was developed in … Being in pain or having a belief that … and other internal states mediating the system's connections … the same psychological kind as long as they … [Functionalism] treats mental states as genuine causes, as … Functional states are defined by their relations not …   Google-1   Google-2

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