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Originally Posted by Interesting Ian 
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Why exactly does a gadget running through all the steps that prove the 'pain theorem' cause that pain to be felt?
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It's just a brute fact about the Universe.
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No that's wrong. Functionalism is similar to behaviourism. In behaviourism the pain literally is saying ouch, ones face contorting etc. In functionalism it is the carrying out of the process itself which is pain. It is the execution of the program that literally
is the pain.