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    It is not the case that Physicalism is false.

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Ghosts (pure subjects of experience without any physical nature) are conceivable.
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    • 2.Ghosts are possible.
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    • 3.If ghosts are possible, physicalism is false.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Mary the color scientist gains genuinely new propositional knowledge upon seeing red for the first time, as Jackson (1982) argues.
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    • 2.If physicalism were true, Mary would already know all facts about color experience from her complete physical knowledge.
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    • 3.Therefore, there exist facts about conscious experience that are not captured by any complete physical description of the world.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Chalmers' hard problem identifies an explanatory gap: no functional or structural account explains why physical processes are accompanied by subjective experience.
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    • 2.Levine's explanatory gap is not merely epistemic—the absence of any conceivable reductive explanation reflects an ontological discontinuity between physical and phenomenal properties.
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    • 3.If phenomenal properties cannot be derived even in principle from physical properties, then phenomenal facts are not physical facts.
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