Putnam's Inverted Spectrum thought experiment is intended to show that

A. having a certain functional organization is not a sufficient condition for being in a certain mental state.
B. mental states are functional states.
C. only a particular kind of functional state can produce qualitative content.
D. having a certain functional organization is a sufficient condition for being in a certain mental state.


Answer: A

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