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The Functional Mind

Science

The Functional Mind

Steve Wagar

Lesson 5: The Recursive Pair

June 30, 2026 2:36pm 7 min

A pattern carved into stone is not, by itself, information.It becomes information the moment something can read it and do something different because of it. Without a processor, it's geology. The pattern and the processo...

Lesson 4: The Case for Inclusive Dualism

June 16, 2026 7:31pm 9 min

The debate between dualists and materialists has lasted four centuries. Both sides were half right.The dualists were right that the mind is genuinely different from the matter it inhabits. The materialists were right tha...

Lesson 3: Being Objective About Functional Things

June 02, 2026 2:12pm 8 min

Nobody has ever seen an electron. We grant it existence because our best models require it — and those models survive every test we put them to.The immune system earns existence by exactly the same standard. Same method....

Lesson 2: The Persistence Test

May 19, 2026 2:53pm 7 min

Lesson 2: The Persistence TestPrologueConsider two things left in a field for a year.The first is a bicycle. Steel frame, rubber tires, a chain that was recently oiled. The second is a bacterium — a single cell, one ten-...

Lesson 1: The Missing Lever

May 05, 2026 2:56pm 6 min

The mind-body problem has been framed wrong for centuries.The real question isn't whether mind and body are two distinct things. They aren't — not fundamentally. The real question is what separates living things from non...

Lesson 0: Welcome to The Functional Mind

April 20, 2026 4:16pm 7 min

The question that has followed me for fifty years: what are we, exactly — not biologically, but scientifically? This is where the journey begins.The Functional Mind is a complete argument in 28 lessons, released fortnigh...

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