%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