PHILOS 7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Color Vision, Headache, David Chalmers
30 Oct 2016
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Lewis thinks feelings come out to be abilities, not physical things. Frank jackson tries to defend it as compatible with scientific accounts of human behavior. It seems to us that our qualia are causes of behavior and that this is why they have evolved, but here we are just confusing a residual effect with its underlying cause. One puzzle for dualism is explaining how the physical and non-physical can interact two radically different features" can"t interact. That interaction between mental and physical substances would involve a causal impossibility (supported by physics" conservation of energy/matter principles) *since the mind is, on the cartesian model, immaterial and unextended, it can have no size, shape, location, mass, motion, or solidity. Jackson believes this can be a problem in theorization how can these brain states cause radically different" things like changes in behavior or movement of the body (i. e. actively moving away from source of pain and).
