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In article <BuJ1or.CHI@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:
>                                 Even once we know all the facts
>about that functional organization, the fact of the system's consciousness
>or otherwise won't follow logically.

You can't possibly know this to be true until you do know the functional
organization.  Until then it is just an assumption you are making.

>                Consciousness doesn't seem to be logically
>necessitated by any set of physical facts, and that's all the
>dualist requires.

But this must be recognized as a statement of ignorance.  Presumably in
times past people said the same kind of thing about light emanating from
the sun.