{"id":197629,"date":"2024-10-14T05:25:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T10:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/illusionism-and-types-of-physicalism"},"modified":"2024-10-14T05:25:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T10:25:23","slug":"illusionism-and-types-of-physicalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/illusionism-and-types-of-physicalism","title":{"rendered":"Illusionism and types of physicalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/illusionism-and-types-of-physicalism2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can we in principle ever deduce the mental from the physical?<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Devlin Brown and David Papineau have a new paper out in the Journal of Consciousness Studies titled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidpapineau.co.uk\/uploads\/1\/8\/5\/5\/18551740\/illusionism_and_a_posteriori_physicalism_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Illusionism and A Posteriori Physicalism; No Fact of the Matter<\/a>. (Note: the link is to a free version.) As the title makes clear, the overall gist is that the difference between illusionism and <em>a posteriori<\/em> physicalism amounts to a definitional dispute.<\/p>\n<p>A quick primer. Illusionism is the stance that consciousness exists, but only in the sense of functional capabilities such as modeling the self in its environment, attention, learning, episodic memory, self monitoring, etc. What\u2019s thought to be illusory is phenomenal consciousness, the \u201cwhat it\u2019s like\u201d nature of subjective experience, but particularly in the strong sense as something distinct from functional capabilities, and with properties, such as fundamental subjectivity, that imply it\u2019s non-physical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we in principle ever deduce the mental from the physical? Christopher Devlin Brown and David Papineau have a new paper out in the Journal of Consciousness Studies titled: Illusionism and A Posteriori Physicalism; No Fact of the Matter. (Note: the link is to a free version.) As the title makes clear, the overall gist [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}