@misc{cogprints318, editor = {Thomas Metzinger}, title = {Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia}, author = {David J. Chalmers}, publisher = {Schoningh/Imprint Academic.}, year = {1995}, pages = {309--328}, journal = {Conscious Experience}, keywords = {consciousness, qualia, experience, artificial intelligence, robots, functionalism}, url = {http://cogprints.org/318/}, abstract = {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.} }