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    It is not the case that The 'long arm' functionalist theory is false, because functional role is not sufficient for determining quale identity.

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    • 1.On Inverted Earth, an experience is caused by red things, used in thought about red things, and guides action with respect to red things — satisfying the functionalist's necessary and sufficient conditions for possessing Q_R.
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    • 2.Yet that experience has Q_G (the quale of green), not Q_R (the quale of red), on Inverted Earth.
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    • 3.Therefore, functional role of the type specified by 'long arm' functionalism does not determine which quale an experience has.
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    • 1.Ned Block's distinction between access consciousness and phenomenal consciousness establishes that functional role tracks the former, not the latter.
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    • 2.If phenomenal consciousness is conceptually distinct from access consciousness, then no purely relational-causal story can fix phenomenal character.
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    • 3.Therefore, 'long arm' functional role, however broadly construed, remains silent on which phenomenal quality is instantiated.
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    • 1.Frank Jackson's Mary argument shows that complete physical-functional knowledge leaves phenomenal facts unknown, implying qualia are not functionally reducible.
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    • 2.If Mary learns something new upon seeing red for the first time, the quale Q_R carries information no functional description — proximal or distal — encodes.
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    • 3.An Inverted Earth subject whose functional role is externally anchored to red objects still lacks Q_R, confirming functional role underdetermines quale identity.
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