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    The word 'experience' can be given a topic-neutral analysis, preserving the identity theory

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    • 1.It is not clear that 'experience' cannot be analysed in topic-neutral terms
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    • 2.A topic-neutral analysis of 'experience' may be developed building on Farrell (1950)
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    • 3.If 'experience' can be analysed topic-neutrally, Place's account is not undermined by Chalmers's objection
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    Quoting these passages, David Chalmers (1996, p. 360) objects that if ‘something is going on’ is construed broadly enough it is inadequate, and if it is construed narrowly enough to cover only experiential states (or processes) it is not sufficient for the conclusion. Smart would counter this by stressing the word ‘typically’. Of course a lot of things go on in me when I have a yellow after image (for example my heart is pumping blood through my brain). However they do not typically go on then:
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