You can show that they’re incoherent by (i) explicating their macro-level functional conception of heat, and then (ii) showing how the micro functional facts entail the macro functional facts.
They already agree on that, just like zombie postulators will (usually?) grant that a functional view will be sufficient to explain all outward signs of consciousness. Their postulated opinion that there is something more to the question is IMO only more transparently incoherent than the equivalent. If you were claiming that the functional view was insufficient to explain people writing about conscious experience that would mean not sharing the same incoherence.
For example, assume I stubbed by toe. From my first person perspective I feel pain. From a third person perspective a nerve signal is sent to the brain and causes various parts of the neural machinery to do things. If I look at what I call “pain” from my first person perspective I can discriminate various, but perhaps not all parts of the sensation. I can feel where it comes from, spatially, and that the part of my body it comes from is that toe. From a third person perspective this information must be encoded somewhere since the person can answer the corresponding questions, or simply point, and perhaps we can already tell form neuroimaging? From an evolutionary perspective it’s obvious why that information is present.
Back to first person, I strongly want it to stop. Also verifiable and explainable. I have difficulty averting my attention, find myself physically reacting in various ways unless I consciously stop it, I have pain related associations like the word “ouch” or the color red, and so on. Nothing I can observe first person except the base signal and baggage I can deduce to have a correlate third person stands out.
The signal itself seems uninteresting enough that I’m not sure if I would even notice if it was replaced with a different signal as long as all baggage was kept the same (and that didn’t imply my memories changed to match). I’m not even completely sure that I really perceive such a base signal and it’s not just the various types of baggage bleeding together. If such a base signal is there for me to perceive and is what made me write this it obviously also must also be part of the functional side. if it isn’t it doesn’t require any explanation.
They already agree on that, just like zombie postulators will (usually?) grant that a functional view will be sufficient to explain all outward signs of consciousness. Their postulated opinion that there is something more to the question is IMO only more transparently incoherent than the equivalent. If you were claiming that the functional view was insufficient to explain people writing about conscious experience that would mean not sharing the same incoherence.
For example, assume I stubbed by toe. From my first person perspective I feel pain. From a third person perspective a nerve signal is sent to the brain and causes various parts of the neural machinery to do things. If I look at what I call “pain” from my first person perspective I can discriminate various, but perhaps not all parts of the sensation. I can feel where it comes from, spatially, and that the part of my body it comes from is that toe. From a third person perspective this information must be encoded somewhere since the person can answer the corresponding questions, or simply point, and perhaps we can already tell form neuroimaging? From an evolutionary perspective it’s obvious why that information is present.
Back to first person, I strongly want it to stop. Also verifiable and explainable. I have difficulty averting my attention, find myself physically reacting in various ways unless I consciously stop it, I have pain related associations like the word “ouch” or the color red, and so on. Nothing I can observe first person except the base signal and baggage I can deduce to have a correlate third person stands out.
The signal itself seems uninteresting enough that I’m not sure if I would even notice if it was replaced with a different signal as long as all baggage was kept the same (and that didn’t imply my memories changed to match). I’m not even completely sure that I really perceive such a base signal and it’s not just the various types of baggage bleeding together. If such a base signal is there for me to perceive and is what made me write this it obviously also must also be part of the functional side. if it isn’t it doesn’t require any explanation.