janMay 11
“…the appeal to illusion does not eliminate experience. It presupposes it. If consciousness is an illusion, there is still something it is like to undergo the illusion. … The question is not whether introspection is fallible. Obviously it is. The question is whether fallibility about the contents of experience licenses denial of experience as such. It does not.”
—David Seagall
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Against Physicalism's Misplaced Concreteness

On Whitehead's Process-Relational Panexperientialism

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“…the physicalist’s treatment of the status of consciousness usually depends on an equivocation. It describes the neural and functional correlates of phenomenology and then quickly declares that nothing remains to be explained. But correlation, functional mapping, and mechanistic description do not by themselves tell us anything about consciousness. In fact, they presuppose it.”
—David Seagall, Against Physicalism's Misplaced Concreteness
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“We cannot describe a universe of blind particles and then, as an afterthought, say “oh, by the way, there is experience.” Nor can we describe a universe made of mathematical equations and then pretend that the physicists who value truth, beauty, evidence, and explanation are somehow external to the picture.”
—David Seagall, Against Physicalism's Misplaced Concreteness
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“The real issue is not whether consciousness is something additional to the laws of physics. That framing already grants physicalism its fallacious misplaced concreteness. The issue is whether the laws of physics were ever merely physical in the sense required by reductive materialism.”
—David Seagall, Against Physicalism's Misplaced Concreteness
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“Feelings are among the facts. Indeed, feeling is the only medium through which facts can come to matter.”
—David Seagall, Against Physicalism's Misplaced Concreteness
#feelings #facts