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    Supports→Humans will never be able to explain the psychophysical link between mind and brain

    Understanding the psychophysical link requires concepts that go beyond spatial perceptual and scientific concepts

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    In perhaps its weakest form, it asserts a practical limit on our present explanatory abilities; given our current theories and models we can not now articulate an intelligible link. A stronger version makes an in principle claim about our human capacities and thus asserts that given our human cognitive limits we will never be able to bridge the gap. To us, or creatures cognitively like us, it must remain a residual mystery (McGinn 1991). Colin McGinn (1995) has argued that given the inherently s

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