'And so there is after all a sense [if functionalism is right] in which "the mental" is distinct from 'the physical': though there are no nonphysical substances or stuffs, and every mental token is itself entirely physical, mental characterization is not physical characterization, and the property of being a pain is not simply the property of being such and such a neural firing.'


Lycan, Mind and Cognition, 2nd edition, p. 6.

 

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