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    Physicalism about consciousness is false — Carmelics
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    Physicalism about consciousness is false

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    • 1.Mary the colorblind neuroscientist learns a new fact upon seeing red for the first time, despite knowing all physical facts about color vision.
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    • 2.If physicalism were true, complete physical knowledge would entail complete phenomenal knowledge, leaving nothing new to learn.
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    • 3.Jackson's knowledge argument thus demonstrates an explanatory gap that reflects a genuine ontological gap between physical and phenomenal facts.
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    • 1.Chalmers' conceivability argument establishes that a world physically identical to ours but containing no conscious experience is logically coherent.
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    • 2.Logical conceivability of philosophical zombies entails metaphysical possibility, given that no incoherence in the zombie concept has been demonstrated.
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    • 3.If consciousness could be absent in a physically identical world, then consciousness is not necessitated by the physical, refuting physicalism.
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    • 1.There are qualitative aspects of conscious experience (qualia) that cannot be fully understood through third-person physical accounts of brain processes
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    • 2.If a complete physical account of the brain fails to capture all facts about consciousness, then consciousness is not purely physical
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    A variety of arguments have been given in favor of dualist and other anti-physicalist theories of consciousness. Some are largelya priori in nature such as those that appeal to the supposed conceivability of zombies (Kirk 1970, Chalmers 1996) or versions of the knowledge argument (Jackson 1982, 1986) which aim to reach an anti-physicalist conclusion about the ontology of consciousness from the apparent limits on our ability to fully understand the qualitative aspects of conscious experience thro
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