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Problem of Evil with Pat Flynn

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The Importance of Functionalism in Philosophy

Theory of mind: The mental just is the physical. A function is something that relates inputs and outputs, right? And so a reductive functionalist is going to say, you know what pain is? Pain is just whatever is that function that gets you to pull your hand away from the pin and scream out. That's all that pain is. Now, look, again, this is a ridiculous account of philosophy of mind. There's clearly a difference between something having a function and being a function.

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