Tag
Physicalism
Entries tagged physicalism.
3 entries
Thought experiment
Mary's Room
A scientist who knows every physical fact about color but has only seen black and white: when she first sees red, does she learn something new, and if so, is physicalism false?
10 min
ConceptThe Hard Problem of Consciousness
Why does any physical process in the brain feel like something from the inside, rather than going on in the dark?
9 min
Thought experimentWhat Is It Like to Be a Bat?
There is something it is like to be a conscious creature, and Thomas Nagel argues that this inside view is exactly what a purely physical description of the brain can never capture.
9 min