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    It is not the case that 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.Functional role might determine discriminability patterns without determining intrinsic phenomenal character—these are separable properties.
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    • 2.Spectrum inversion could occur if inverted subjects have identical discrimination abilities but systematically different quale-to-function mappings.
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    • 3.Similarity judgments might reflect learned associations rather than intrinsic qualitative properties, allowing functional identity with inverted experience.
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    • 1.If two subjects have identical functional roles for color states, they must perceive qualitative similarity relations identically by definition.
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    • 2.Spectrum inversion requires functional identity with qualitative difference, which is logically impossible under functionalism about mental content.
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    • 3.Our similarity judgments about colors (red closer to orange than blue) are explained by and supervene on functional role relations.
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