Canonical functionalism identifies consciousness-relevant functional organization with the minimal state-transition structure obtained by equating internal states that exhibit identical future behavior under all possible continuations.
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Canonical Functionalism: Defining Functional Structure without Observer-Relative Semantic Maps
Canonical functionalism identifies consciousness-relevant functional organization with the minimal state-transition structure obtained by equating internal states that exhibit identical future behavior under all possible continuations.