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Article 4133 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: orourke@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
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Subject: Re: Quantum theory and consciousness (was Pansychism)
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Date: 28 Feb 92 16:50:47 GMT
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In article <1992Feb27.232228.16472@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> 
	chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:

>On the other hand, it seems a perfectly coherent (counterfactual)
>possibility that all the physical facts could be precisely as they are,
>but without any qualia at all. [...] Even once all the physical facts about the
>universe are fixed, the facts about qualia are still contingent.  So
>there are contingent facts over and above the physical facts, and that's
>enough to establish a weak form of dualism.

	I assume you mean: all the physical facts *as far as we know 
today*.  Dualism is only established if you believe that the physical
facts we know now are all that are relevant to explaining the
phenomenon.  Moreover we could know all the basic facts but not
understand the consequences.


