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    Supports→Functionalism contradicts reductionist interpretations of the mind

    Reductionism requires that higher-level properties be fully specifiable in terms of lower-level theories

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    Others have argued that functionalism best suits non-reductive physicalism in the following sense: It maintains the naturalist’s intuition that there is unity among the underlying property-realizers which are all ultimately physical; hence, token identity theory is true. Nevertheless, it opens the possibility to accommodate the threat of multiple realizability in a particular way: Functional kinds can be multiply realized, and, hence, they can be regarded as being distinct from the lower-level p

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