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''Thinking about Consciousness'' by David Papineau, is a book (published in 2002) about consciousness that describes what Papineau calls the 'Intuition of Distinctness'. He does not so much attempt to prove that materialism is right (although he presents his 'Causal argument' for it in the first chapter) as analyse why dualism seems intuitively plausible. He makes various propositions for future research in his book. ==Causal argument== In the first chapter of his book, Papineau offers the causal argument as what he considers the best argument for materialism: # Conscious mental occurrences have physical effects # All physical effects are fully caused by purely ''physical'' prior histories # The physical effects of conscious states are not always overdetermined by distinct causes. Materialism follows. Although Papineau recognises that it is possible to reject these premisses, he claims that to do so leads to empirically implausible conclusions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thinking about Consciousness」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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