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    Spectrum inversion scenarios are of special significance ... — Carmelics
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    Spectrum inversion scenarios are of special significance among anti-functionalist arguments

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    • 1.Some inversion scenarios are biologically possible
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    • 2.Biologically possible scenarios are closer to home than scenarios involving zombies or thinking rocks
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    • 3.We have a firmer grip on possibilities that are closer to home
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    • 1.Biological possibility does not entail metaphysical possibility, as Ned Block and Jerry Fodor argued functional equivalence constraints may rule out inversion at the physical level.
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    • 2.If spectrum inversion is biologically impossible given actual neural color-opponent processing, the 'closer to home' advantage over zombie arguments collapses entirely.
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    • 3.A philosophical argument gains anti-functionalist force only if the scenario is genuinely possible, not merely underdescribed or empirically naive.
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    • 1.Functionalism can be reformulated to include relational and comparative functional roles, as Sydney Shoemaker argued, making inverted spectra functionally distinguishable after all.
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    • 2.If holistic functional organization—including aesthetic preferences, color-sorting behavior, and linguistic dispositions—necessarily co-varies with qualia, inversion scenarios lose their anti-functionalist bite.
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    There is one other defense of the utility of inversion scenarios in anti-functionalist arguments, namely that some of them are biologically possible—and hence not as far fetched as scenarios containing zombies or thinking rocks. If this is right, then spectrum inversion would be of special significance, since we have a firmer grip on possibilities that are closer to home.
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    If spectrum inversion is biologically impossible given actual neural color-oppon...
    Some inversion scenarios are biologically possible
    We have a firmer grip on possibilities that are closer to home
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