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    Challenges→If dualism is true, consciousness in at least some of its types may be basic and fundamental, and thus cannot be explained as arising from nonconscious items.

    Russellian monism, advanced by Galen Strawson and others, treats phenomenal properties as the intrinsic categorical bases of physical dispositions, dissolving the dualist/physicalist dichotomy.

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    Key Terms

    Galen Strawson(the philosopher whose theory is being described)
    A contemporary British philosopher known for his work on consciousness, free will, and physicalism—the view that everything in the universe is ultimately made of physical matter.
    Physical dispositions(philosophy of mind and metaphysics)
    The natural tendencies or abilities that physical things have, like how a cup is disposed to break when dropped.
    Russellian monism(Philosophy of mind and metaphysics)
    The view that physical science reveals only the structural or relational nature of the world, while the intrinsic nature of what bears those structures is not captured by physics.
    categorical bases(as used in metaphysics)
    The fundamental building blocks or properties that give something its specific characteristics; what actually makes a thing what it is at the most basic level.

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    dichotomy(Refers to one of Zeno's paradoxes of motion)
    A paradox so named because it involves repeated division into two
    dualism(philosophy of mind)
    A philosophy of mind under which persons may survive death
    intrinsic properties(Contrasted with structural properties revealed by physics)
    Properties which supposedly underlie and account for the structural properties of things.
    phenomenal properties(Used in the context of higher-order thought theory to refer to properties whose presence is explained by higher-order representations)
    The qualitative, 'what-it-is-like' features of conscious experience that characterize how perceptual states feel to the subject
    physicalism(The target position that the knowledge argument is designed to refute)
    The thesis that physical theory can in principle account for everything there is to know about the world

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