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Function

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Function is not really a parameter of comfort. It is actually the other way around. Comfort and function are even opposite sometimes. Comfort wants to lead us to a space that lays the minimum impediments in our enjoyment of it. Comfort is the count of the number of impediments in our experience that could be removed. Actually comfort is a synthetic parameter. We are comfortable with what we are used to. And we can get used to precisely anything.

As far as comfort is in question, and within the larger context of chairs, the function of an object claiming to be a chair might be none.

A chair has only one function, it wants us to relieve us of responsibility to keep standing so that we do not tumble and fall. Falling is undesirable because chairs and beds are not friends and a fallen being is only suited for a bed.

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