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    On Inverted Earth, an experience is caused by red things,... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The 'long arm' functionalist theory is false, because functional role is not sufficient for determining quale identity.

    On Inverted Earth, an experience is caused by red things, used in thought about red things, and guides action with respect to red things — satisfying the functionalist's necessary and sufficient conditions for possessing Q_R.

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    Inverted Earth(Philosophy of mind; thought experiment attributed to Ned Block)
    A thought experiment in which an individual is placed on a planet where the colors of objects are systematically inverted relative to Earth (e.g., the sky is yellow, grass is red), but the individual's visual system is also inverted so that their functional responses remain identical to those of an Earth person — used to test externalist and functionalist theories of mental content and qualia.
    Qualia (Q_R)(as the central puzzle in philosophy of mind about whether subjective experiences can be fully explained physically)
    The subjective, felt quality of an experience—what it's actually *like* to see red, taste coffee, or feel pain. The 'R' in Q_R stands for 'red,' referring specifically to the experience of red.

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    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.
    necessary and sufficient conditions(in philosophical analysis)
    A 'necessary' condition is something that must be true for something else to happen; a 'sufficient' condition is something that guarantees it will happen. This phrase describes what must be true (and what's enough) for a definition to apply.

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    This gives us an apparent counterexample against the “long arm” functionalist theory. On Inverted Earth your experiences have the functional role that the functionalist theory says is necessary and sufficient for possessing \(Q_{R}\): they are “caused by red things in the right circumstances, and used in thought about red things and action with respect to red things rightly”. But on Inverted Earth your experiences with this functional role have \(Q_{G}\), not (or not always) \(Q_{R}\).

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