PHI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ex-Gay Movement, Qualia, Physicalism
12 Sep 2016
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Physicalism: the phenomenal is the physical, the physical facts are all of the facts, the phenomenal supervenes on the physical*** Counter arguments: explanatory gap (nagel, knowledge argument (jackson, the conceivability argument ( Concerned with explanations of cognitive abilities or functions: low level explanation high level explanation neural mechanism, high level explanation low level explanation computational mechanism, examples. Examples: ability to discriminate amongst stimuli, deportability of mental states, attention, binding, deliberate control of behavior, differentiating between wakefulness and sleep. Experience may arise from the physical, but it is not entailed by the physical. We know that consciousness does not arise from physical processes. Qualia: phenomenal properties characterizing what it is like to be in that state. The painfulness of stubbing one"s toe state. It is possible that the phenomenal does not supervene on the physical: therefore, physicalism is false or it is only possibly true.
