Debate: Is Functionalism a Stronger Claim Than Structuralism?

A philosophy-of-mind debate centers on whether functionalism makes a stronger substrate-independence claim than structuralism, or whether structuralism, requiring both function and structure, should be a subset of functionalism instead.

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