PHIL 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Physicalism, Qualia
15 May 2017
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Frank jackson ~ what mary didn"t know: e. g. amputee feels sensations in non-existent limb, cannot tell someone they don"t think what they think. Physicalist: (cid:498)a complete physical knowledge, including that one can have of the world and one"s own mental state(cid:499) Argues again physicalism knowledge of physicochemical state of brain is all the knowledge. There is knowledge to be gained besides physical knowledge, and this knowledge has to do with the way certain experiences feel. E. g. difference between what it is to be in love and what it feels like to be in love. Learns from black-and-white t. v. lectures all there is to know about physical world (including colour) Mary knows all she needs to know (if physicalism is true) She knows what will go on in the brain/eye when she sees it, but. She will experience a new feeling if she is ever shown colour is like, rather an argument of how it feels.
