Empirical confirmation of the Chalmers and McQueen hypothesis would not confirm dualism, but it would demonstrate the possibility of a causal role for non-physical consciousness that is compatible with physics, thereby weakening the evidence for physical causal closure.

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• Person: Not available Organization: Cambridge University Press
  Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness

Sources

• Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press via serper

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• David Chalmers entity
• dualism concept
• consciousness concept
• principle of physical causal closure concept
• Kelvin McQueen entity