Christianity is heading for a full allegorization

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That would be calculator functions.

If the calculator is made of a semiconductor, such as silicon N and P type, then someone is using the intrinsic properties of that semi-conductor to build, transistors, resistors, diodes (electronic components).
By connecting various electronic components together, you get certain circuits for doing certain mathematical functions.

A function takes the form of
take input 1, take input 2, ....take input N.
Output output 1, output 2, ....output N

Function could also mean purpose.
What is the function of a hammer? To drive nails into wood.

Calculators are computers (at least these days), and with computers, one has hierarchy and encapsulation.  And, so, a NAND gate may require 2 physical transitors, a XOR gate 8 transitors, etc.  While some work at the physical level (the design and manufacture of transitors),  others work at the logical level (the arrangement of logic gates on a PCB).  Others "higher up" would work with HDLs, hardware description languages, which enters the realm of firmware.  Still higher would be the operating system, the suite of software that manages a computer; higher still would be the application developers, who would code for the UI, the user interface, and implement the various calculator functionality.

Out of this hierarchy of functionality is the emergent object that we call a "calculator".

It’s is a beautiful system.
It looks like you are describing a general purpose PC.

However, the property dualism concept comes from the old days and I think they didn’t know what to make of consciousness.
To them, the brain was just a blob. Did 16 th and 17 th century people even know that it is the brain that generated the consciousness or were they on the idea of the soul or the heart being the center of “life”?
I know that at some point, they started to call it vitalism. We can see the concept of vitalism present in John-Baptiste’s Lamarckism (early 18 th century).

A certain experiment discredited the idea of vitalism.

Urea was first discovered in urine in 1727 by the Dutch scientist Herman Boerhaave,[3] though this discovery is often attributed to the French chemist Hilaire Rouelle.[4]

In 1828, the German chemist Friedrich Wöhler obtained urea artificially by treating silver cyanate with ammonium chloride.[5][6][7]

    AgNCO + NH4Cl → (NH2)2CO + AgCl

This was the first time an organic compound was artificially synthesized from inorganic starting materials, without the involvement of living organisms. The results of this experiment implicitly discredited vitalism — the theory that the chemicals of living organisms are fundamentally different from those of inanimate matter. This insight was important for the development of organic chemistry. His discovery prompted Wöhler to write triumphantly to Berzelius: "I must tell you that I can make urea without the use of kidneys, either man or dog. Ammonium cyanate is urea." For this discovery, Wöhler is considered by many[who?] the father of organic chemistry.

Anyway, the people of the 16 th and 17 th century, they listed 2 things that the world contains:
1. Material properties
2. Mental properties


You can mine for materials and perhaps do some chemistry to find the materials with certain material properties.
However, you can’t mine for mental properties.

The brain, just like the calculator’s CPU, is a circuit, it is a structure.
The same goes for a house. A house is just a structure. I wouldn’t call it an object with house properties.