Neural machinery and realization

Philosophy of Science 71 (5):997-1006 (2004)
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The view that the relationship between minds and brains can be thought of on the model of software and hardware is pervasive. The most common versions of the view, known as functionalism in philosophy of mind, hold that minds are realized by brains

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Realization and mental causation.Sydney Shoemaker - 2001 - In Carl Gillett & Barry Loewer, Physicalism and its Discontents. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 23-33.
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