Rejecting Jackson’s account of qualia

‘Jackson’s arguments conclusively support the claim that there are qualia.’ Discuss this claim in connection with one or more of the following: the Knowledge Argument, the inverted spectrum hypothesis, the absent qualia hypothesis.

If it is true that if qualia are ‘strong facts’ (ie they have a real physical existence), then they would make problems for a physical account of consciousness.

In this essay, I will review some of the key arguments in support of qualia, and evaluate whether they conclusively show that qualia are ‘strong facts’ or not. I will begin by explaining the implications of the real existence of qualia for a physicalist account of mind.

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