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In medicine, electrical engineering, physics, but also in psychoanalysis, a distinction is made between functions and behaviors. Braitenberg has elaborated this in experiments and thus explained the abstractions behind these terms very comprehensibly.

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  1. Braitenberg, Valentin v.: Vehicles: Experiments in synthetic psychology. MIT Press, Cambridge; 1984

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Dietrich, D. (2023). Functions and Their Behavior. In: Artificial Intelligence: A Bridge Between Psychoanalysis and Neurology. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30368-5_3

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