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    It is not the case that Physicalism requires that all facts supervene on physical facts characterized by physics, which makes no reference to intrinsic experiential properties.

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    • 1.The qualitative character of experience (redness, painfulness) seems absent from any third-person physical description, however complete.
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    • 2.Supervenience allows that experiences could differ while physics remains identical; physics may be insufficient, not merely incomplete.
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    • 3.Physics deliberately abstracts away from intrinsic properties; this methodological choice doesn't prove intrinsic experiences lack reality.
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    • 1.Physics describes all causal powers in the universe; if experience had distinct causal effects, physics would need to reference it.
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    • 2.Experience supervenes on neural states; identical neural configurations produce identical experiences, supporting physical sufficiency.
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    • 3.Positing non-physical experiential properties violates parsimony and creates unsolvable interaction problems between mental and physical.
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