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

    Showing that absent qualia are impossible only establishes that phenomenal character as such has a functional essence

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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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