Qualia and Epiphenomenalism

The philosophical theory of dualism thinks thinking and body are two separate entities. Dualism assumes that two "substances" interact, but that contrasts with physicalism by rejecting the correlation between body and mind as proof of identity. Comparing these two theories, the perfect evidence of dualism about the existence of qualia escaped the claim of physicalism. The common theory of non-physical attributes defined in Jackson's knowledge theory is aimed at imperfections of phenomenology, but this description is not fatal to dualisticism because it can not comply with philosophy including the theory of causality . I imagined. zombie

This thought experiment was proposed to explain the difference between "physical knowledge" and "non-physical knowledge" originally obtained by research by Mary in the 1982 paper "Epiphenomenal Qualia" by philosopher Frank Jackson It was. She gets it when she goes out. Therefore, the discussion is usually this, neuroscientific description of the brain is an inappropriate description of consciousness. There are many objections. Laurence Nemirow argues that after seeing the color, he gained practical knowledge on how to imagine the color. Neuroscientist Rama Chadlin thinks that Mary is trapped in a gray room and will not be able to see the color when going out but it will be a blind body. Since it is impossible to remove colors from the laboratory, others such as Evan Thompson have questioned the validity of the experiment.

Whether it is of physical nature depends on the definition of the term "physical". In cases where physical function causes disease but does not affect function, in that case quality is "physical" in the sense of a physical event, but it is non-physical in the sense that it is isolated from other physical events Can be considered. Philosophically, they violate the principle of termination of causality. However, based on discussions such as methodological naturalism, there is another definition of physicalism that all things that can be studied using natural scientific methods are physical (see Stoljar 2001). Therefore, the qualifications of vassals may not be materialistic, but they may be covered by physiism; they are, as events related to material events, they are the functions to which they are given Waiting for how to be guided from.