Qualia share their correlates’ locations.
This paper presents the location-sharing argument, which concludes that qualia must share the locations of their physical correlates. The first premise is a consequence of relativity: If something shares a time with a physical event in all reference frames, it shares that physical event’s location....
| Published in: | Synthese Vol. 202; no. 2; pp. 1 - 15 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2023
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | This paper presents the location-sharing argument, which concludes that qualia must share the locations of their physical correlates. The first premise is a consequence of relativity: If something shares a time with a physical event in all reference frames, it shares that physical event’s location. The second premise is that qualia share times with their correlates in all reference frames. Both physicalism and dualism benefit from having qualia share locations with their correlates, as this makes relations between qualia and physical things easier to explain. |
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