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Re:Consciousness Is Just a Feeling by bondarchuk on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:55AM (#26344812)
Indeed. If you reject that "the room as a whole" speaks Chinese, you reject functionalism. If you think philosophical zombies are conceivable, this is also a rejection of functionalism. Ultimately the acceptance or rejection of functionalism is (as far as I can tell) only a matter of dogma, and these two arguments serve to find out which dogma you (implicitly) subscribe to.

Personally I place the rejection of functionalism on basically the same level as the acceptance of dualism. I don't know what precisely has happened to make most serious researchers reject dualism, but perhaps non-functionalism will run the same course.

Re:Consciousness Is Just a Feeling by GoblinSlayer on Thursday March 04, 2021 @01:35PM (#26346269)
Not sure about serious, but they are loud for sure, and are memed by other people, maybe even more the latter than the former.