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    It is not the case that Spectrum inversion scenarios are of special significance among anti-functionalist arguments

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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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    • 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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