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n. - Any doctrine that stresses utility or purpose; A psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment.

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  • In many ways, neo-functionalism is hard-wired into the EU, certainly among the Eurocrats in Brussels.
  • As is Dennett's functionalism, which is a denial of mental states at all, including "intent", which is what Schwartz is relying upon.
  • As far as the notion of functionalism in architecture is concerned, it cannot be assumed that such ideas refer back to Ruskinian theories.
  • Slide 15: Oversimpli fi ed notions of VM used by many philosophers Some philosophers who know about Finite State Machines (FSMs), use a simple kind of "functionalism"
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