My Philosophy of Mind professor is apparently in the midst of an eliminativist crisis in terms of phenomenal consciousness. His argument is basically as follows: 1) There would be absolutely no difference between those individuals which actually have phenomenal consciousness and those individuals who labor under the false belief that they have phenomenal consciousness. 2) Phenomenal consciousness is far more metaphysically strange than is a false-phenomenal-consciousness-belief making mechanism in the brain. 3) Thus, the eliminative position is preferable to the alternative. (more…)
