Hi Matt! I don’t think that follows. At best, those premises cut off one way that functionalism could support spending more on small invertebrates (namely, via Conscious Subsystems), leaving many others open. Functionalism is such a broad view that it probably doesn’t have any practical implications at all without lots of additional assumption—which, of course, will vary wildly in terms of the support they offer for spending on the spineless members of the animal kingdom.
Hi Matt! I don’t think that follows. At best, those premises cut off one way that functionalism could support spending more on small invertebrates (namely, via Conscious Subsystems), leaving many others open. Functionalism is such a broad view that it probably doesn’t have any practical implications at all without lots of additional assumption—which, of course, will vary wildly in terms of the support they offer for spending on the spineless members of the animal kingdom.
Thanks Bob—appreciate it!