PHLB81H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Qualia, Epiphenomenalism, Color Vision
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Works on philosophy of mind, epistemology, meta-ethics. You are a physical thing, there is nothing more to you than the physical stuff: there are only material stuff in this world. Everything about you can be explained in terms of physical stuff. Your brain is a physical thing: maybe your brain and mind are the same thing. *everything about your thoughts, experiences, sensations etc. can be explained in terms of physical terms. They serve merely to soothe the intuitions of dualists, and it is left a total mystery how they fit into the world view of science. In short we do not and cannot understand the how and why of them. Jackson: so: maybe there are limits to how much of the world we can explain. They say that experience is the best teacher, and the classroom is no sub for real. Contribution to basically every part of philo; one of the greatest philosophers and greatest beard of 20th century.
