Phenomenal Consciousness: An Alternative Healing Method for Mental Illnesses
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2010-09
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The Journal of Pan African Studies
Abstract
The paper researches the debates between physicalists such as Paul and Patricia Churchland and the
anti-physicalists such as Frank Jackson, about the possibility of the complete empirical explanation and
reduction of the nature and property of subjective consciousness. The paper argues that phenomenal
consciousness cannot be explained or reduced by physicalist which raises the issue of the need for
psycho-mental experts and/-or psychiatrics to enhance their expertise with an understanding of the
nature and characteristics of phenomenal consciousness as an alternative healing method for psycho
mental illnesses in Africa, and in Nigeria particularly.