Defining Reality: A Scientific Approach to Truth, Knowledge, and Consciousness

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Doesn't work. Metaphorical perspective (subjective bias)
is not a necessary entailment of literal
perspective (geometry).

I never said it was. I said

inaccessible from any other (literal or metaphorical) perspective

If I claimed that "A is neither B nor C", does that imply I am claiming that B entails C, or that C entails B? No, I don't think so.

It may not be possible as a matter of fact,
but it is entailed by physicalism in
the sense that Chalmers uses the word, so his
claim that there is a HP is entirely consistent.

That must be some kind of "private meaning" of physicalism then. Physicalism is simply the thesis that everything supervenes on the physical, this thesis does not entail that all properties of the world are accessible from all perspectives.

It is only because some people seem to believe that all properties of the world must be accessible from all perspectives (which is in fact not entailed by physicalism) that they then create the HP for themselves (ie qualia are then mysterious and inexplicable). Accept the truth that not all properties of the world are accessible from all perspectives and the HP doesn't exist (ie qualia are trivially explained as 1st person perspective properties of the world) - and all still consistent with physicalism.

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[Evo]

Thank you all that participated, but the thread has been allowed to remain open too long. Paul's "personal theory" claims fall outside the bounds of what is allowed here.