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Full Idea
Without the completeness of physics, there is no compelling reason to identify the mind with the brain.
Gist of Idea
The completeness of physics is needed for mind-brain identity
Source
David Papineau (Thinking about Consciousness [2002], App 7)
Book Ref
Papineau,David: 'Thinking about Consciousness' [OUP 2004], p.255
A Reaction
Papineau says the completeness of physics was accepted from the 1950s. Why were Epicurus and Hobbes physicalists? Do we have a circularity here? How do you establish the completeness of physics, without asserting mind to be physical?