David Papineau - In truth a clear-headed physicalist shouldn't be thinking any of these dual

In truth a clear-headed physicalist shouldn't be thinking any of these dualist thoughts. If pains are one and the same as C-fibres firing, then there really isn't any possibility of having 'one' without the 'other'. Once you properly appreciates physicalism, this dissociation should cease to appear possible - C-fibres with pains should strike you as no more possible than squares without rectangles.

- David Papineau

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topic: Pain, Thinking, Squares, Firing, Dissociation, Rectangles