Explanation Of The Knowledge Arguments On Physicalism

Physicalism is “the theory that all information is ultimately physical information, information about physical states and physical events, couched exclusively in physical terms.” Frank Jackson perspective was that everything that exists is physical and everything also can be explained and described by physical theories.
The knowledge argument is one of the most examined arguments on physicalism. The intention of the knowledge argument is to prove that the conscious experience associates with non-physical properties. The idea revolves around the fact that someone who has full physical knowledge about another conscious being might still have knowledge about how it feels to have the experiences of that being absence. For example, the argument can be about two people who are both experiencing a loss of a mother, both know what that aspect of pain feels like but each person doesn’t know what it feels like to the other person. Frank Jackson described qualia as the “raw feels” of conscious experience, what it’s like to feel pain, see a color, smell a flower or hear a sound. Also is described as “the hurtfulness of pains, the itchiness of itches, pangs of jealousy.” Qualia is the plural form of the word Quale, which
Churchland points out that no one really knows what capabilities a full knowledge of neuroscience will bring. He also makes an argument that denounces dualism. Dualism is the belief that there are two fundamental substances, mind and matter. While materialism focuses on just one fundamental aspect, matter and there is no other substance. One example that goes towards what Churchland agrees with is that the fact that having a mind involves having thoughts, using a language and being a part of reasoning and since physical things cannot engage in reasoning, that would mean that the mind is