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David Papineau on Physicalism

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The Conscious Mind Can't Be Physical

Some philosophers have pushed quite hard this problem of what it's like to experience something, concocting elaborate thought experiments. What have you got responses to those? Is there are some rather beautiful thought experiments that aim to show that the conscious mind can't possibly be physical? Perhaps the best known as Frank Jackson, Australian philosopher from Canberra,. is Mary thought experiment, sometimes called the knowledge argument.

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