In Many Cases It Is A Matter

Dualism Makes The Problem Insoluble; Materialism Denies The Existence Of Any Phenomenon To Study, And Hence Of Any Problem.

Materialism Ends Up Denying The Existence Of Any Irreducible Subjective Qualitative States Of Sentience Or Awareness.

Where Conscious Subjectivity Is Concerned, There Is No Distinction Between The Observation And The Thing Observed.

It Seems To Me Obvious That Infants And Many Animals That Do Not In Any Ordinary Sense Have A Language Or Perform Speech Acts Nonetheless Have Intentional States. Only Someone In The Grip Of A Philosophical Theory Would Deny That Small Babies Can Literally Be Said To Want Milk And That Dogs Want To Be Let Out Or Believe That Their Master Is At The Door.

How Do We Get From Electrons To Elections And From Protons To Presidents?