On an Argument for Functional Invariance

  • Authors:
  • Michael Pelczar

  • Affiliations:
  • National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • Minds and Machines
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The principle of functional invariance states that it is a natural law that conscious beings with the same functional organization have the same quality of conscious experience. A group of arguments in support of this principle are rejected, on the grounds that they establish at most only the weaker intra-subjective principle that any two stages in the life of a single conscious being that duplicate one another in terms of functional organization also duplicate one another in terms of quality of phenomenal experience.