title: Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia creator: Chalmers, David J. subject: Philosophy of Mind description: 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. publisher: Schoningh/Imprint Academic. contributor: Metzinger, Thomas date: 1995 type: Book Chapter type: NonPeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/318/1/qualia.html identifier: Chalmers, David J. (1995) Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia. [Book Chapter] relation: http://cogprints.org/318/