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    It is not the case that Physicalism about consciousness is false

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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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    • 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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    Reason against 2 of 2
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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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