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lavalamp comments on Does functionalism imply dualism? - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 31 January 2012 03:43AM

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Comment author: lavalamp 31 January 2012 05:15:52PM 0 points [-]

The patterns are an organization of reality that has higher-level meaning to our minds. The meaning, as with everything, is in the interpretation, not the physical atoms.