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    Supports→Spectrum inversion scenarios are of special significance among anti-functionalist arguments

    We have a firmer grip on possibilities that are closer to home

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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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