Physicalists need to explain why consciousness seems to be incompatible with physics. This 'seeming' is attributed to psychological reasons by eliminativists and to conceptual confusion by nonreductive physicalists. However, as a pre-Socratic naturalist, I find the most satisfying possible solution to this 'seeming' to emerge from the 'riches of physics', that is, from discovering physical...
This paper introduces a novel dual-aspect theory of consciousness that is based on the principle of holographic-duality in modern physics and explores the prospects of making philosophically significant empirical discoveries about the physical correlates of consciousness. The theory is motivated by an approach that identifies certain anti-physicalist problem intuitions associated with...
Some materialists believe that physics is rich enough to bridge Levine's Explanatory Gap, while others believe that it is not. Here I promote an intermediate position holding that physics is rich enough to explain why this gap seems more intractable than similar inter-theoretic explanatory gaps, without providing a full-blown "physical" explanation of consciousness. At a minimum, such an...