Assertion: mind's state | /r/CapableOf | leave robotics or science fiction
Facets:
value: aside
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Functionalism came to be seen as an improvement on the identity theory, and as inconsistent with it, because of the correct assertion that a functional state can be realised by quite different brain states: thus a functional state might be realised by a silicon based brain as well as by a carbon based brain, and leaving robotics or science fiction aside, my feeling of toothache could be realised by a different neural process from what realises your toothache.