If holistic functional organization—including aesthetic preferences, color-sorting behavior, and linguistic dispositions—necessarily co-varies with qualia, inversion scenarios lose their anti-functionalist bite.
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"Necessarily" means something must be true in all possible situations—it's not just true right now, but couldn't be false under any circumstances. For example, "2+2=4 necessarily" means there's no possible way 2+2 could equal anything other than 4. This contrasts with "contingently" true facts, like "it's raining today," which happen to be true but could have been false.
functionalism(Philosophy of mind; distinguished here from representationalism)
The view that mental states are defined by the causal roles they play in a cognitive system — their actual, potential, or typical causal relationships.
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