"318","Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia","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.","http://cogprints.org/318/","Chalmers, David J.","Metzinger, Thomas"," Chalmers, David J. (1995) Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia. [Book Chapter] ","","1995"