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Subject: Re: re: awareness - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 9-Nov-83 00:05:28 EST
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uokvax!andree    Oct 30 13:21:00 1983

Robert -

If I understand correctly, your reasons for preferring dualism (or
physicalism) to functionalism are:

	1) It seems more intuitively obvious.
	2) You are worried about legal/ethical implications of functionalism.

I find that somewhat amusing, as those are EXACTLY my reasons for
prefering functionalism to either dualism or physicalism. The legal
implications of differentiating between groups by arbitrarily denying
`souls' to one is well-known; it usually leads to slavery.

	<mike