Any genuine attempt to strip qualia while preserving all physical-functional properties collapses into an incoherent instruction, because phenomenal character just is a certain functional role.

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Incoherent(describing whether moral responsibility can exist): Logically impossible or contradictory; something that cannot make sense or cannot exist at the same time as something else.
functional role(The criterion by which mental states are identified on the analytic functionalist view.): A pattern of causal relations that an internal state bears to stimulations, behavior, and other internal states.
phenomenal character(Used to distinguish the mere presence of experience from the specific qualitative nature of individual experiences): The qualitative, subjective 'what it is like' aspect of mental states; the property of having qualia
physical-functional properties(as used in philosophy of mind): The measurable, objective features of something based on what it does and how it works—like the brain's neurons firing or a computer processing data. The parts you could describe in purely scientific terms.

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qualia(The passage presents two competing definitions to contrast the views)

On the Cartesian picture: intrinsic qualities of inner ideas of which subjects are directly aware, necessarily shared by internal duplicates regardless of environment. On wide representationalism: representational contents of inner states whose nature is partly externally determined

Any genuine attempt to strip qualia while preserving all physical-functional properties collapses into an incoherent instruction, because phenomenal character just is a certain functional role.

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