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6. Multiple realizability:

  • every type of mental state is identical with some type of physical state
  • what makes a mental state the state that it is, is the functional role it plays
  • each type of mental state is realised by many different types of brain states
  • every token of a mental state is identical with some token physical state

7. Eliminativism:

  • the position that something doesn’t exist and reference to it should be eliminated
  • nothing that exists is mental
  • what makes a mental state the state that it is, is the functional role it plays
  • our everyday theory about minds and mental philosophy

8. Folk psychology:

  • each type of mental state is realised by many different types of brain states
  • the position that something doesn’t exist and reference to it should be eliminated
  • our everyday theory about minds and mental philosophy
  • a functional duplicate of a human person but who has no mental qualities

9. There are three competing views on how we should work out what the function of a mental state is; which one of these is NOT one of them?

  • Analytic
  • Empirical
  • The inputs and outputs
  • Machine-state

10. Which of these is a functional kind as opposed to a natural kind?

  • Fabric
  • Table
  • Wood
  • Metal