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causal functionalism

Dictionary of Philosophy of MindDictionary of Philosophy of Mind
The view that a physical system realizes a mental state not in virtue of the particular stuff it is made of but instead in virtue of the causal relations that parts of that system bear to each other. See functionalism(1) , functionalism(2) .
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