Philosophy / Unit 6 Philosophy 0234 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Multiple Realizability Objection
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The idea
The multiple realizability objection: pain occurs in creatures with very different brains—so pain cannot be identical to one specific neural process.
In practice
An octopus, a bird, and a human all feel pain with radically different hardware. One state, many realizations.
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