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    Materialism is false — Carmelics
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    Materialism is false

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    • 1.There is an explanatory gap between any complete physical description of a brain state and the subjective, qualitative character of experience (Levine 1983).
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    • 2.If an explanatory gap exists between physical descriptions and phenomenal properties, then phenomenal properties are not identical to physical properties.
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    • 3.If phenomenal properties are not identical to physical properties, materialism is false.
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    • 1.Mary the colorblind neuroscientist learns all physical facts about color vision yet gains new knowledge upon first seeing red, demonstrating physicalism leaves facts out (Jackson 1982).
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    • 2.If there exist facts about conscious experience that are not captured by any complete physical account, then the physical account is explanatorily incomplete.
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    • 3.A doctrine that is explanatorily incomplete with respect to consciousness cannot constitute a true theory of mind.
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    • 1.Materialism holds that matter can explain (is identical with, can give rise to) perception
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    • 2.A perception is a state whereby a variety of content is represented in a true unity
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    • 3.Whatever is not a true unity cannot give rise to perception
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    PerceptionConsciousness & Mind

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    Causation2 linkedTruth & Knowledge1 linkedVirtue Ethics1 linked
    Value Nihilism is false

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    A doctrine that is explanatorily incomplete with respect to consciousness cannot...A perception is a state whereby a variety of content is represented in a true un...If an explanatory gap exists between physical descriptions and phenomenal proper...If matter cannot explain perception, then materialism is false
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    Leibniz’s point is that whatever is the subject of perception and consciousness must be truly one, a single “I” properly regarded as one conscious being. An aggregate of matter is not truly one and so cannot be regarded as a single I capable of being the subject of a unified mental life. This interpretation fits nicely with Lebniz’s oft-repeated definition of perception as “the representation in the simple of the compound, or of that which is outside” (Principles of Nature and Grace, sec.2 (1714
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    Mary the colorblind neuroscientist learns all physical facts about color vision ...
    Materialism holds that matter can explain (is identical with, can give rise to) ...
    Matter is infinitely divisible
    There is an explanatory gap between any complete physical description of a brain...
    Therefore, matter cannot explain, be identical with, or give rise to perception
    Therefore, matter cannot form a true unity
    Value Nihilism is false
    Whatever is divisible is not a true unity
    Whatever is not a true unity cannot give rise to perception
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