creators_name: Chalmers, David J. editors_name: Metzinger, Thomas type: bookchapter datestamp: 1998-06-15 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:48 metadata_visibility: show title: Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia ispublished: pub subjects: phil-mind full_text_status: public keywords: consciousness, qualia, experience, artificial intelligence, robots, functionalism 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. date: 1995 date_type: published publication: Conscious Experience publisher: Schoningh/Imprint Academic. pagerange: 309-328 refereed: FALSE citation: Chalmers, David J. (1995) Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia. [Book Chapter] document_url: http://cogprints.org/318/1/qualia.html