%A David J. Chalmers
%J Conscious Experience
%T Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia
%X In this paper I use thought-experiments to argue that functional organization fully determines conscious experience. These thought-experiments involve the gradual replacement of neurons by silicon chips, and similar scenarios. I argue that if "absent qualia" or "inverted qualia", are possible, then phenomena I call "fading qualia" and "dancing qualia" will be possible; but I argue that it is very implausible that fading or dancing qualia are possible. The resulting position is a sort of nonreductive functionalism.
%K consciousness, qualia, experience, artificial intelligence, robots, functionalism
%P 309-328
%E Thomas Metzinger
%D 1995
%I Schoningh/Imprint Academic.
%L cogprints318

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