Functionalism And Physicalism

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and not of
particular pains (i.e. stomach-ache, pin-pricks, etc.). But, according to
Putnam, if the Physicalists does indeed attributes the name "physical states"
to the enormous number of mental states we humans have, then, I think it would
be impossible for them to be concerned only with the type and not the tokens.
But once they started to consider each specific pain (token), they will have to
ascribe a different physical-chemical state to each token-state. Ultimately,
the common thing "to all pains in virtue of which they are pains (Block, p.
172)" cannot be put in terms of a single physical state. Recall that the same
problem does not exist in the consideration of Functionalism because
Functionalism concern itself basically with the causal relations between these
tokens and not a particular one. Therefore, the common thing that exists in
Functionalism "to all pains in virtue of which they are pains" is actually the
function or the functional state that account for all ...

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