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The relationship between consciousness and physical facts is defined by the philosophical debate over whether the former is reducible to the latter, as explored in David Chalmers' work [1] and the argument that experiential knowledge does not logically supervene on physical facts [2]. Furthermore, thinkers like Chalmers, Levine, and Kripke argue that consciousness is not logically entailed by physical facts [3], while historical perspectives like Clifford's discuss the difficulty of bridging the gap between physical facts and conscious experience [4].
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Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers, Joseph Levine, and Saul Kripke argue that philosophical zombies are impossible within the bounds of nature but possible within the bounds of logic, implying that facts about experience are not logically entailed by physical facts and that consciousness is irreducible.
The Conscious Mind - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
formulaThe argument regarding Mary's room is formalized as: (1) upon seeing the colour red, Mary gains new knowledge of the world; (2) the fact that Mary can only gain this knowledge by acquaintance demonstrates that the experiential fact of what it is like to see red does not logically supervene on physical facts; (3) therefore, facts about consciousness are further facts about the world over and above the physical facts.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
quoteWilliam Clifford stated: "… we cannot suppose that so enormous a jump from one creature to another should have occurred at any point in the process of evolution as the introduction of a fact entirely different and absolutely separate from the physical fact. It is impossible for anybody to point out the particular place in the line of descent where that event can be supposed to have taken place. The only thing that we can come to, if we accept the doctrine of evolution at all, is that even in the very lowest organism, even in the Amoeba which swims about in our own blood, there is something or other, inconceivably simple to us, which is of the same nature with our own consciousness …"
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
referenceIn the book 'The Conscious Mind' (1996), David Chalmers concludes that consciousness is irreducible to lower-level physical facts, similar to how fundamental laws of physics are irreducible to lower-level physical facts.