@misc{cogprints4786, month = {March}, title = {How qualia can be physical}, author = {Mr Dennis Nicholson}, year = {2006}, keywords = {qualia, mind-body problem, identity theory, hard problem, knowledge argument}, url = {http://cogprints.org/4786/}, abstract = {Assume that a quale as we experience it is a perspective on an underlying physical state, rather than the physical state as such ? the reality as known as distinct from the reality as such. Assume, further, that this inner perspective is integral to, and materially co-extensive with, the physical state itself. Assume, finally, that the physical state in question is known as a brain state of a particular kind by an external observer of the brain in which it occurs. The result is a perspective in which a quale is entirely physical; a position that resolves several known difficulties for physicalism, including those associated with the explanatory gap, Jackson?s knowledge argument, and Chalmers? hard problem of consciousness.} }