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There are no other phenomena which we accept as real - where “accept as real” is an ability to correctly predict and manipulate, ie, create technology - based p
by w0de0 2y ago
There are no other phenomena which we accept as real - where “accept as real” is an ability to correctly predict and manipulate, ie, create technology - based purely on qualia. This is the essence of physicalism. The hard problem of consciousness is therefore broadly acknowledged.
“Reductive physicalism” doesn’t need to be saved; there’s nothing else; physicalism is the fundamental philosophy of science, the prerequisite for a functional, predictive physics.
Consciousness is the quandary, not physicality.
- walleeee 2y agoTo quote Penrose: "I don't like the word materialism because we don't know what the material is." It's all a quandary, no? Wonderfully useful predictive models aside, we have almost as little metaphysical/ontological purchase as we have w.r.t. qualia. And though it is difficult to argue with physicalism (broadly conceived), there are compelling critiques of reductive physicalism.