Is my mind my brain 4: Monism Physicalism

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Physicalism/materialism:
Everything that exists is a physical thing
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Mind-body dependence:
the mental features a given thing has depend on, and are determined by, the physical features it has
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Evidentialism:
the justification you have for a belief at a given time depends entirely on your mental states at the time
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What is the most important feature of Mary in Frank Jackson's famous example?
She has never seen colours
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What is the basis of the knowledge argument?
One might know all the objective, physical facts about human conscious experiences, and yet fail to know certain facts about what human conscious experiences are like subjectively
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Knowledge by description:
When we come to know what something is like by receiving a description of it
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Knowledge by acquaintance:
When we come to know what something is like by undergoing the experience ourselves
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