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    Inverted Earth-type scenarios do not have an essential ro... — Carmelics
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    Inverted Earth-type scenarios do not have an essential role to play in arguments against functionalism

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    • 1.Block's original inverted qualia argument relies on functional isomorphism, which can be challenged without invoking spatial or chromatic inversion scenarios.
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    • 2.Ned Block's 'absent qualia' zombie arguments against functionalism are logically independent of inversion and achieve the same anti-functionalist conclusion more directly.
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    • 3.If absent qualia scenarios suffice to show functional states lack intrinsic phenomenal properties, inversion scenarios add no additional logical force against functionalism.
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    • 1.Shoemaker's functionalist response to inverted qualia specifically exploits structural features of color space, neutralizing inversion scenarios as a privileged anti-functionalist tool.
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    • 2.Anti-functionalist arguments grounded in Mary's Room (Jackson) or the conceivability of zombies (Chalmers) target the explanatory gap directly, without dependence on relational inversion structures.
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    • 3.A philosophical argument class lacks essential status when its removal leaves the target position—here, anti-functionalism—fully supported by independent argument chains.
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    • 1.The Inverted Earth argument against functionalism may need to appeal to outlandish possibilities
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    • 2.Other possibilities not involving inversions, and arguably no more outlandish, can serve equally well as counterexamples to functionalism
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    This response concedes that the Inverted Earth argument against functionalism may need to appeal to more-or-less outlandish possibilities. And if it does, then since other possibilities not involving inversions, and arguably no more outlandish, will do just as well, it is doubtful that Inverted Earth-type scenarios have an essential role to play in arguments against functionalism.[34]
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