PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Physicalism, Multiple Realizability, Integrated Circuit
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Pro-dualism argument #2: the argument from privacy. Physical objects are public and therefore 3rd personal. Can be described from a 3rd person"s point of view. Can only be described in 1st person by the person experiencing it. Minds are fundamentally different from bodies (p1 and p2) Pro-dualism argument #4: the personal identity argument. People are not mere collections of atoms, if they were, then you wouldn"t identify yourself 8-12 years ago (given metabolism/cellular replacement): The non-existence of any physical object can be conceived/imagined. Necessarily, a bachelor = adult + single + male. If p1, p2, and p3 are true, then i cannot imagine a ghost (ghost=a mind without a body/brain) P1, p2, or p3 must be false (p4) That is, what do you mean by "everything" What does it mean to say that everything is physical. By "physical", stoljar means a property that is explicable by terms of contemporary science.
