A whose
body is not necessarily the brain. For example, pain is not a physico-chemical
brain or nervous system, state but a functional state of adderin the body taken as a whole. Thus, mental
phenomena are functional states of the organism and it is not possible to know
studying subprocesses in which they are involved, as brain processes.
Functionalism presupposes that the same function can be performed by very
different systems, because the adderin
nature of its components is not
essential for the proper performance of their duties. One thing is a clock or a
thermostat for the function performed (give time, .
