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These arguments about how physicalism of subjective experiences is impossible is like arguing about how atomism is incorrect during Democritus' time, but without the excuse that atomism has shown no results.
Physicalism has been a great success thus far, but there is still quite a ways to go before we will be able to understand consciousness on a physicalistic basis, or be able to show that physicalistic approaches are impossible. Arguing that it's impossible at this moment in time is ridiculous.
Comment by country-blue at 16/01/2020 at 19:34 UTC
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But it *is* impossible. We are trying to understand our subjective experience (consciousness) with objective tools - that by definition is going to fall flat. Have you ever noticed how 100% of your conscious experience is happening in your subjective reality? The objective world is a useful idea, but just that, an idea. The problem is that we have grown too attached to it as somehow being "the truth", when literally everything about our experience says otherwise.