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Consciousness, Dissociation, Metacognition, Idealism, Materialism, Philosophy, Psychedelics, Death & Mind | Bernardo Kastrup | 60

Mind & Matter

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Physicalism Survives Epistemic Inversions

Most believers, casual believers in physicalism, do not know what physicalism is. That's ignorance. The other one that is appealed to whand physicalism rests on it is its incompleteness. It's precisely its lack of explanatory power. No structure and function will give you anything other than structure and function. They will not give you qualities. But because there is so much we don't know about the structure and function of the brain, and there is no account under physicalism of how structure and function or function, brain activity can lead to the qualities of experience,. Then we get into a position in which anything that you measure or fail to measure about the brain can be used as

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