Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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We discuss the ideas that have led me away from physicalism. Specifically, realism about phenomenal consciousness, vagueness, phenomenal precision/sharpness, nonemergence (that there is only weak emergence, no strong emergence), monism, the objective/subjective divide, and the explanatory gap.

https://linktr.ee/emersongreen

Shownotes: audioboom.com/posts/7800721-34-can-physicalism-explain-phenomenal-consciousness

transcript: emersongreenblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/15/can-physicalism-explain-phenomenal-consciousness

00:00-03:27 realism & physicalism
03:28-05:24 emergence, weak & strong
05:25-08:47 objective & subjective
08:48-11:36 back to realism
11:37-14:51 continuity & evolution
14:52-20:20 vagueness
20:21-22:12 back to emergence
22:13-23:39 monism
23:40-30:18 in sum