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    It is not the case that The mind-brain identity theory is preferable to dualism

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    • 1.Phenomenal consciousness involves qualitative properties (qualia) that are not captured by any functional or physical description.
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    • 2.If qualia are real but not reducible to physical properties, then the identity theory fails to explain a genuine feature of mind.
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    • 3.An explanatory framework that leaves out real features of its domain is not preferable, regardless of its parsimony.
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    • 1.Multiple realizability shows that mental states can be instantiated by physically distinct substrates across species and systems.
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    • 2.If mental state types cannot be systematically identified with brain state types, then type-identity theory is false as a general account of mind.
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    • 3.A dualist ontology that preserves the autonomy of mental kinds may better accommodate the actual generality of psychological explanation than a reductive identity theory.
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    • 1.The identity theory and dualism explain the same empirical data
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    • 2.The dualist explanation involves more ontology than the identity theory explanation
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    • 3.Parsimony favors explanations with less ontological commitment
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