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Świadomość i jej intuicyjna niefizyczność

Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia March 29, 2026 Karol Polcyn

The intuition that phenomenal consciousness is not a physical property is central to debates about consciousness. Some theorists treat this intuition as a psychological illusion, while others see it as a genuine cognitive problem. This article argues that neither approach is satisfactory and presents a new argument that the intuition of dualism is a genuine epistemic problem. The difficulty arises because psychophysical identities cannot be deduced from physical truths alone, creating an epistemic gap that cannot be dismissed as mere error.