Multiple realisability
Multiple realisability
Real World
Pain is pain whether you are a human with C-fibres, an octopus with a completely different nervous system, or a hypothetical silicon-based android — the same mental state type is 'multiply realised' across radically different physical substrates, which is why identifying pain with one specific brain state seems too narrow.
Exam Focus
Use multiple realisability as a precise objection to type-identity theory; always name Smart or Place when crediting the view being challenged.
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