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    Inverted spectrum scenarios are not essential to establishing the explanatory gap

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    • 1.The explanatory gap can be grounded in absent qualia scenarios rather than inverted spectrum scenarios
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    • 2.Levine 2001 relies more heavily on absent qualia scenarios such as zombie conceivability than on inverted spectrum arguments
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    • 1.Inverted spectrum scenarios uniquely demonstrate the explanatory gap by showing qualia can vary independently of functional organization.
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    • 2.Absent qualia scenarios only establish that consciousness might be missing; inverted qualia establish that its intrinsic character is unexplained even when present.
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    • 3.Levine's 1983 original formulation of the explanatory gap explicitly used color inversion to show physicalism cannot explain why red feels like THIS rather than that.
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    • 1.Zombie conceivability arguments face the Chalmers-Levine dispute about whether zombies are genuinely conceivable without begging questions about physicalism.
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    • 2.Inverted spectrum scenarios are dialectically superior because they presuppose phenomenal consciousness exists, making them harder to dismiss via eliminativist or illusionist responses.
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    • 3.A gap argument grounded solely in absent qualia inherits zombie argument vulnerabilities, making inverted spectrum scenarios load-bearing rather than dispensable.
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    One exegetical complication is that Levine himself now denies P1, while continuing to maintain the existence of the explanatory gap on the basis of an argument related to Argument D, although somewhat more complicated (2001, Ch. 3). And in any case, just like the inverted spectrum argument against behaviorism, functionalism and physicalism (see subsection 3.1 above), inverted spectrum scenarios are not playing an essential role in the case for the gap, and indeed Levine 2001 leans more heavily o
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