Therefore, one serious line of attack is to argue the case for physicalism about the human mind.

According to physicalism, all that exists in our world (including consciousness) is physical.

Physicalism and materialism are often supposed to be close cousins.

In practice, it is frequently assimilated to one variety of physicalism or another.

In this way, physicalism is still compatible with the conclusion that Mary gains new knowledge.

Physicalism is the view that everything in the universe is made out of physical stuff.

Views that fall under this general heading are called physicalism or materialism.

Indeed, it is held to pose a challenge to physicalism, let alone computationalism.

Physicalism reduces consciousness to nothing more than the physical.

There are two main interpretations of 'a posteriori' physicalism which exist today.

Physicalism is often called "materialism", though some attempt to draw a distinction between the two.

The ontology of physicalism ultimately includes whatever is described by physics.

However, supervenience alone is not sufficient to establish the basis of physicalism.

Hence, the question arises whether there can still be a non-reductive physicalism.

Jackson contends that, yes, she has learned something new, via experience, and hence, physicalism is false.

Below, we discuss several other concepts relevant for distinguishing different forms of physicalism.

Thus, it is most likely that physicalism is true.

If such a difference would cause mental differences on Earth, it would not be consistent with our understanding of physicalism.

This statement is a necessary truth, and therefore supervenience physicalism could not be contingent.

Physicalism must therefore explain how it is possible that these properties can nonetheless emerge from a material thing.

However, Jackson later rejected his argument and embraced physicalism.

These rule out spiritualism and seem to demand physicalism.

This by no means, however, indicates that the mind is considered as a quality of the body (as we see in type physicalism).

However, physicalism in its turn leaves open the question of what we are to consider as the proper terms of physics.

Therefore much of the generally philosophical discussion below on materialism may be relevant to physicalism.