Could consciousness be physically realised?
Apollo (University of Cambridge) March 15, 2011 Adrian Boutel
I defend physicalism about phenomenal consciousness against recent epistemic arguments for dualism. First I argue (as against Kripke) that psychophysical identities can be a posteriori (and apparently contingent, and conceivably false). Their epistemic status is due to the analytic independence of phenomenal and physical-functional terms. Unlike Kripke’s own explanation of a posteriori...