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- From: daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough)
- Subject: Re: Dualism
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.041758.16880@oracorp.com>
- Organization: ORA Corporation
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 04:17:58 GMT
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- In article <Bx3t8w.D75@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
- chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:
-
- >While it is true that there are many functional descriptions of a
- >system, that does not mean that such descriptions are not objective.
- >Whether a system instantiates a given functional organization is an
- >objective matter, it seems to me (modulo Putnam/rock worries -- let's
- >not get into those again).
-
- The problem for me is that I don't know of an objective, coherent,
- nontrivial notion of functional organization. To be nontrivial, it has
- to be the case that two systems that are behaviorally identical can
- have different functional organizations.
-
- Daryl McCullough
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