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Questions on Functionalism |
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1. In
'A for Andromeda' Fred Hoyle imagined a vast cloud of interstellar gas that was
sentient. Supposing that only normal signals connected the physical parts of the
cloud, it would operate at very low
speeds. Supposing also that functionalism was correct, what would such a mind be
aware of. Similarly for a tree: what could it
be aware of?
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