Ask a physicalist to point to a mind and give a complete inventory of its physical properties, they can't do it!https://twitter.com/lastpositivist/status/1339323313227784193 …
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Almost inevitably the physicalist will appeal to some sort of grounding relation ("the mental is grounded in the physical") but give no account of how or why that relation obtains, or how to reductively articulate the relata in physical terms
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Its fun to dunk on cartesian dualism because its so riddled with problems, but basic off-the-shelf physicalism has a lot of very exploitable presuppositions that commit the physicalist to some often deeply weird views
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me reading your tweetspic.twitter.com/qMQjFyKMvb
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Dennett has to squint so much because he's always looking for the physical basis for consciousness, but he never does seem to find it!
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