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    Individual qualia need not be functional in nature even if having some phenomenal character is functionally guaranteed

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    • 1.Showing that absent qualia are impossible only establishes that phenomenal character as such has a functional essence
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    • 2.It does not show that the specific qualitative character of individual qualia is determined by functional role
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    • 3.Inverted spectra remain possible even if absent qualia are impossible
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    • 1.If functional organization necessarily produces some phenomenal character, the specific character produced is constrained by the functional structure generating it.
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    • 2.Ned Block's own conceivability arguments for inverted spectra presuppose that qualia have intrinsic properties, but intrinsic properties of mental states are best explained by their causal-functional roles per Shoemaker's functionalist account.
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    • 3.Shoemaker's 'Functionalism and Qualia' demonstrates that the functional properties of color experience logically determine their qualitative similarity and difference relations, leaving no room for spectrum inversion.
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    • 1.The inference from 'absent qualia are impossible' to 'only phenomenal character as such has a functional essence' commits a composition fallacy: if every token quale requires functional realization, the specific character of each is functionally individuated.
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    • 2.Daniel Dennett's heterophenomenological framework establishes that there is no coherent explanatory gap between functional role and qualitative character once we reject the Cartesian assumption of a privileged introspective inner theater.
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    One standard functionalist reply to cases like the China-body system is to bite the bullet and to argue that however strange it seems, the China-body system could not fail to undergo qualia. The oddness of this view derives, according to some functionalists (Lycan 1987), from our relative size. We are each so much smaller than the China-body system that we fail to see the forest for the trees. Just as a creature the size of a neuron trapped inside a human head might well be wrongly convinced tha
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