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date: '2025-11-10'
description: same function, different phenomenology
id: inverted spectrum
modified: 2026-06-05 15:08:05 GMT-04:00
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  - '[[thoughts/qualia]]'
  - '[[thoughts/functionalism]]'
  - '[[thoughts/philosophical zombies]]'
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  - pattern
title: inverted spectrum
created: '2025-11-10'
published: '2025-11-10'
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locke 1689, shoemaker 1982 (modern pressure-test). hardin 1988 (color phenomenology has internal structure). dennett 1988 (case isn’t genuinely conceivable). wittgenstein’s knife: private item without public criterion.