Philosophical Theories of Consciousness - Part VI

Chalmers's Naturalistic Dualism

  > Zombies and the modal argument
  > Mental properties as fundamental
  > The principle of organizational invariance
      > dancing and fading qualia
  > Brute facts at high levels ?

The Inscrutability of Matter

  > Leibnizian premonitions
  > Can matter be merely dispositional ?
  > What can be added ?
  > Is this just panpsychism ?

Drifting Towards Panpsychism

  > Consciousness as fundamental
  > Reformed matter is "properly" reformed
  > Brute facts are "at the bottom"
  > Mind as pervasive as "information"
  > No eruption of the "radically distinct"

For Panpsychism

  > Old analogies
  > No leaps in nature
  > Nagel's No-Emergence argument
  > The intrinsic nature argument

Against Panpsychism

  > Intrinsic absurdity
  > No evidence of mentality
  > Epiphenomenalism threatens
     > the physical world is causally closed
  > No explanatory advance
     > emergence still required
     > the "combination problem"

Surface Metaphysics

  > Scientific anti-realism
  > Science is not metaphysics
  > Models, not reality
  > Efficacy at the surface of things
  > Reality at the surface of things