Leaving the Dream Behind: Why the Metaphysics of Consciousness cannot be Unveiled by Conceivability Arguments
Problemos October 18, 2023 Luis Alejandro Murillo-Lara
In this paper, I present a novel objection to Chalmers’s “master argument” against the privileged strategy of ‘type B’ physicalists to account for the explanatory gap (the “phenomenal concepts strategy”). Specifically, I argue that the second horn of the master argument gets wrong why zombies cannot have our epistemic situation with regard to consciousness. Zombies cannot have a kind of mental...