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    Supports→The behaviorist supervenience thesis implies the functionalist supervenience thesis, which in turn implies the physicalist supervenience thesis.

    The behaviorist thesis holds that behavioral identity entails mental identity.

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    Behaviorism in the philosophy of mind is the view that the mental is nothing over and above behavior (including dispositions to behave). Any version of behaviorism implies that the mental supervenes on behavior. That is: necessarily, two creatures who are behaviorally alike are also mentally alike. Likewise, any version of functionalism or physicalism implies that the mental supervenes on, respectively, functional organization and physical makeup. For the purposes of this subsection, it is not n

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