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    It is not the case that Functionalism may be refuted without relying on an inverted spectrum hypothesis

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    • 1.Zombie scenarios (a conscious subject and a functional duplicate who is not conscious at all) are conceptually coherent
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    • 2.If conceptual coherence entails metaphysical possibility, then zombie scenarios are possible
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    • 3.If zombie scenarios are possible, then functionalism is false
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Mary the color scientist, upon leaving her black-and-white room, learns a new fact about red that no functional description captured (Jackson 1982).
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    • 2.If any fact about consciousness escapes complete functional description, then functional role cannot be identical to or sufficient for conscious experience.
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    • 3.The knowledge argument thus refutes functionalism through epistemic asymmetry alone, requiring no modal claims about spectrum inversion or zombies.
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    • 1.Ned Block's distinction between access consciousness and phenomenal consciousness identifies qualia whose intrinsic character outruns any causal-functional role (Block 1995).
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    • 2.If phenomenal properties are not exhausted by their causal-functional roles, then functionalism—which identifies mental states solely by such roles—is false.
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    • 3.This argument proceeds entirely from the internal structure of the functionalist thesis itself, not from the contingent possibility of perceptual inversion across subjects.
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