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I'm using functional to mean "something that has inputs, outputs, and internal workings", not to mean "something that does something somehow".
I don't think we have such a sense. More importantly, nothing I have said implies it.
Ah! I was using it in the biological sense. As roughly the same as "purpose". (You are, of course, welcome to add as many additional scare quotes as you think necessary to immunize us from the taint of teleology.)
It appears we have been talking past each other. This may be a good place to stop.