The China-body system cannot fail to have experiences with phenomenal character

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1.Any system that is a full functional duplicate of a human would hold all the same beliefs, including beliefs about its own internal states
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2.The China-body system would therefore believe that it experiences pain
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3.A system that holds beliefs about its own experiential states cannot fail to be the subject of some experiences
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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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