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    It is not the case that If mental state types are identified with functional roles rather than intrinsic phenomenal properties, bridge laws connecting functional mental kinds to physical kinds become nomologically tractable.

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    • 1.Functional roles can diverge from phenomenal character—a being with identical functional organization might lack conscious experience entirely.
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    • 2.Bridge laws require mapping mental predicates to physical properties; functional role abstractions may be too multiply realizable to ground nomological connections.
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    • 3.The assumption that physics exhausts causal explanation is itself contested; phenomenal properties might be causally fundamental, not derivative.
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    • 1.Functional roles are defined by causal relations among inputs, outputs, and internal states—properties that physical systems can instantiate.
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    • 2.Phenomenal properties resist reduction to physical properties, making bridge laws connecting them to neurobiology empirically intractable.
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    • 3.Functionalism enables mental kinds to supervene on multiple physical implementations, preserving nomological generality across diverse substrates.
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