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Although I'm Australian, I Find Myself Much More In Sympathy With The Austrian Version!

Sense Data Are Much More Controversial Than Qualia, Because They Are Associated With A Controversial Theory Of Perception - That One Perceives The World By Perceiving One's Sense-data, Or Something Like That.

A Philosopher Might Find The General Work Unsophisticated, And Scientists Are Often Bemused By Esoteric Talk Of Zombies, Supervenience, And Possible Worlds.

Things Are Still In Early Stages, But One Can Imagine That As We Build Up And Systematize Our Theories Of These Associations, And Try To Boil Them Down To Their Core, The Result Might Point Us Toward The Sort Of Fundamental Principles I Advocate.

Because The Idea Of Zombies Seems To Make Sense, And Seems To, In A Certain Sense, Be Possible, I Think One Can Use That To Argue Against The Thesis That Everything Is Purely Physical. Now Many People, I Think, Agree That The Idea Of Zombies Are Conceivable, Including People Who Want To Be Physicalists.