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Physicalism or Anti-physicalism: A Disjunctive Account [PDF]
AbstractIn this paper, we make a case for the disjunctive view of phenomenal consciousness: consciousness is essentially disjunctive in being either physical or non-physical in the sense that it has both physical and non-physical possible instances.
Baysan, Umut, Wildman, Nathan
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Physical distancing ≠ physical inactivity [PDF]
Abstract During this time of global health crisis, physical distancing, along with mask wearing, has emerged as the sine qua non social practice to protect ourselves and others from COVID-19. But as physical distancing ensues and all eyes remain fixed on the novel coronavirus, another, albeit careworn, pandemic rages on.
Meyer, Stefanie M +4 more
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From Murphy’s Christian Physicalism to Lowe’s Dualism
Nancey Murphy argues that God created us as physical beings without immortal souls. She supports this Christian physicalism by arguing that neuroscience can better explain minds in terms of physical information processing than dualists can in problematic
Mostyn Jones, Eric LaRock
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The language of physicalism: A conceptual review of physicalist ontology
In this paper, the author explores the development and influence of the language of physicalism on the understanding of the mind and body problem.
Igor Janković
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A Critique of the Argument for Panpsychism through Refutation of the Emergence of Consciousness [PDF]
Panpsychism, as opposed to physicalism and dualism, offers a third way to explain consciousness. According to panpsychism, some fundamental physical entities have conscious states.
MohammadJavad Elahieasl, Mahdi Zakeri
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359 pages, 78 figures; published in Physics ...
Marko Jusup +14 more
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Paradox of the duplication of physical information
A thought experiment demonstrates that physicalism about consciousness entails a paradoxical duplication of physical information. Moreover, objective existence acquires the status of a physical property.
Maxim Ryabkov
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A Critical Study: Physical Closure and the Argument for Naturalism [PDF]
Great naturalist philosophers like David Armstrong, David Papineau, Jeagwon Kim, and others have argued that the best arguments for naturalism are based on Physical Causal Closure (in brief P.C). P.C that is a premise in these arguments implies that only
Nima Narimani
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Moral Agency of Artificial Intelligence from the Perspective of Philosophy of Mind and Contemporary Neuroscience [PDF]
The primary objective of this research is to examine the moral-legal agency of artificial intelligence from the perspectives of contemporary philosophy of mind and neuroscience. To achieve this goal, first, the concept of agency and the mental components
Smaeil keshavarz
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Where Does the Knowledge Argument Go Wrong?
In his well-known Knowledge Argument (KA) Frank Jackson attempted to show that physicalism is false by offering a case that allegedly showed that a complete physicalist description of the world leaves something crucial out, namely the phenomenal ...
Fernando Rudy Hiller
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