Mental representations, ideas, beliefs, and intentions are computations and are both mental functions and physiological states {functionalism, cognition}. States are not neurons and their actions, but their information and algorithms. The same information can be in different neurons. The same mental function can use different physiology {token-identity theory, functionalism}, rather than always the same physiology {state-identity theory, functionalism} {type-identity theory, functionalism}. The same physiology can serve different functions [Churchland, 1979] [Churchland, 1986] [Churchland, 1988] [Churchland, 1995] [Churchland, 2002] [Farber and Churchland, 1995] [Pylyshyn, 1984].
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