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Philosophy of mind

the apparent failure of any physical or functional account to explain why a brain state feels the way it does from the inside.

In philosophy of mind, explanatory gap refers to the apparent failure of any physical or functional account to explain why a brain state feels the way it does from the inside. This meaning comes from Levine (1983) in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.[1]

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Levine, J. (1983). Materialism and Qualia: the Explanatory Gap. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 64(4), 354-361. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0114.1983.tb00207.x

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