Phenomenal Concepts and the Explanatory Gap |
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Written by <a href='/community/profile/68-danieleaton/'>danieleaton</a>
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Friday, 08 July 2005 22:13 |
David J. Chalmers : "Confronted with the apparent explanatory gap between physical processes and consciousness, there are many possible reactions. Some deny that any explanatory gap exists at all. Some hold that there is an explanatory gap for now, but that it will eventually be closed. Some hold that the explanatory gap corresponds to an ontological gap in nature.
In this paper, I want to explore another reaction to the explanatory gap. Those who react in this way agree that there is an explanatory gap, but hold that it stems from the way we think about consciousness. In particular, this view locates the gap in the relationship between our concepts of physical processes and our concepts of consciousness, rather than in the relationship between physical processes and consciousness themselves. " more
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