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    It is not the case that Functionalism can be reformulated to include relational and comparative functional roles, as Sydney Shoemaker argued, making inverted spectra functionally distinguishable after all.

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    • 1.Inverted spectrum subjects can be stipulated to have perfectly matching relational and comparative functional roles, making Shoemaker's distinction empirically vacuous.
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    • 2.Adding relational properties to functionalism risks abandoning core functionalist claims that only internal functional organization determines mental content.
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    • 1.Relational functional roles capture dispositional differences: inverted spectrum subjects would differ in how colors causally relate to other mental states.
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    • 2.Comparative functional roles are empirically detectable through behavioral asymmetries when subjects process color relationships and make comparative judgments.
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    • 3.Shoemaker's reformulation preserves functionalism's explanatory power while avoiding the purely introspective indistinguishability problem of standard accounts.
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