Parallel computation and the mind-body problem

Cognitive Science 10 (3):301-18 (1986)
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states are to be understood in terms of their functional relationships to other mental states, not in terms of their material instantiation in any particular kind of hardware. But the argument that material instantiation is irrelevant to functional..

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