Ideas from 'Purple Haze' by Joseph Levine [2001], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Purple Haze: the puzzle of consciousness' by Levine,Joseph [OUP 2001,0-19-517308-2]].

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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / d. Explanatory gap
Even if we identify pain with neural events, we can't explain why those neurons cause that feeling [Papineau]
Only phenomenal states have an explanatory gap; water is fully explained by H2O [Papineau]
Materialism won't explain phenomenal properties, because the latter aren't seen in causal roles [Papineau]