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    Challenges→Cartesian intuition is not a reliable basis for arguments against functionalism, including the inverted spectrum argument

    Cartesian intuition certifies scenarios that functionalists consider impossible, such as zombies, thinking rocks, and disembodied minds

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    However, Cartesian intuition, just like conceptual coherence, is not a very discriminating weapon, tending to spread possibility over a wide landscape (cf. Tye 2003, section 4). Cartesian intuition also tends to certify the possibility of scenarios containing zombies, thinking rocks, entirely disembodied minds (not even embodied in ectoplasm), and so forth—all impossibilities, according to the functionalist. So, as with conceptual coherence, any inverted spectrum argument against functionalism t

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