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In article <Bv4A0D.EAM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:

>These plausibility arguments can be taken further.  The old "fading
>qualia" and "dancing qualia" arguments are instances of these,
>for instance, using our intuitions about the most plausible
>results of certain thought-experiments to argue for the conclusion
>that consciousness supervenes on abstract functional organiozation.

Dancing qualia?

Anyway, I don't think our intuitions in these areas are very
reliable.  For instance, it it really intuitive that a number
of neurons could be killed without much, if any, noticeable
effect?  Suppose someone's neurons stopped working, one by one.
What happens?  Does their consciousness fade, blink out, or
what?  

-- jd