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Functionalist/eliminativist in the sense of Daniel Dennett, who is a functionalist but more or less denies that qualia exist. I agree that a radical idea is needed. Physicalist functionalism doesn't seem to work if you buy (and I do) the arguments from the likes of Putnam and Searle that there is no...

Hi Sam, You enumerate 3 types of colour, but you seem to be mostly interested in a 4th, the phenomenal experience of a colour or the quale we associate with a colour. Some people may want to identify that with number 3, but you don't, so why not list it out explicitly as a 4th point? I do find the b...

I'd like to hear the argument against this view, rather than dismissals of it as fantasy and nonsense. It really isn't. There's a compelling case for it being true, given a couple of relatively reasonable assumptions. But first you need to understand it. It depends on two key ideas. The first idea i...