
Janet Levin: The Materialist Theory of Consciousness
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Why Physicalists Prefer Physicalism in Practice
In practice, we're going to have to be physicalists and try and understand the world in physical terms. If there is this mysterious consciousness world behind it all, underneath it all, somehow well caniit doesn't really we can't do anything with it. And i'm not positive about that, giving some of the worries that i sould have half articulated earlier. But o physicalism, no, it's, i mean, people say that we're intuitive dualists. I'm not sure that's true, but we certainly are intuitive physicalists,. at least with respect to how things are in the world of trees, rocks, human bodies, et cetera. The question
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