Bomb Threats for Functionalists.
Functionalist theories of consciousness attribute consciousness to a system when it displays specific patterns of behaviors and state changes in response to perceptual events and its prior state. These patterns can be disrupted in ways that would intuitively not preclude consciousness. The challenge...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 91; no. 3; pp. 1251 - 1271 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2026
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