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To just introduce a piece of jargon,
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we could call those the P abilities, P for person.
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Or we could talk about the various kinds of ways--
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this is the physicalist way of thinking about it--
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according to the physicalist, a person is just a body
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that has the ability to fulfill the various P functions.
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And we can talk, then, about a person as a P-functioning body.
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Or we could say that
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a person is a body that is P-functioning.
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It's important to see that the idea is,
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although it's a body, it's not just any old body.
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Indeed, it's not just any old human body.