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Do Thermometers have beliefs?

On functionalism, would it be correct to say a thermometer has a belief? Namely, it believes the room should be cooler or warmer in various moments. The "belief" being cashed out in terms of function, the thermometer is disposed and acts to make the room cooler or warmer.  


I assume a functionalist would not say thermometers have beliefs, and that I'm misunderstanding the theory...
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Thermostats do have functions but functionalists don’t believe that having a mind is nothing more than having a function. Television remotes also have functions but that doesn’t make them minds. 

The functionalist position is that what constitutes a mind is a *specific* kind of function, not any old function. Since we couldn’t run the function of a mind on a thermostat it’s definitely not the kind of thing that has a mind.