From Leibniz's mill to Levine’s gap
On minds, brains, and machines
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Mind, matter, neutral monism, materialism, qualiaAbstract
Leibniz's famous windmill metaphor posed a problem that much later Levine named the "explanatory gap" due to the apparent disjunction between the mental and material aspects of reality. In this regard, neutral monism happens to be a worthy rival to materialist monism by accepting the irreducible subjectivity of qualia. This thesis somehow separates psychology from physics and, if we add an additional hypothesis to it, banishes the possibility of thinking machines
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