Biological possibility does not entail metaphysical possibility, as Ned Block and Jerry Fodor argued functional equivalence constraints may rule out inversion at the physical level.
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Jerry Fodor(the philosopher being cited for this theory)
A prominent 20th-century philosopher and cognitive scientist who argued that the mind works like a computer program, processing symbolic representations of the world.
Ned Block(as a philosopher studying consciousness)
A contemporary philosopher who studies consciousness and the mind; he's known for arguing that our conscious experiences (like seeing colors) might be fundamentally different from what we can logically imagine or prove.
constraints(Used in the context of time travel space-times to distinguish genuine lawlike constraints from mere contingent compatibility)
Restrictions on states on spatial surfaces that hold as a matter of law rather than accidental fact
metaphysical possibility(Distinguished from mathematical possibility to argue that some mathematically consistent results are ruled out by the nature of concrete reality)
What is possible in the concrete world, which is a more restrictive domain than mathematical possibility