Qualia,” Frank Jackson makes an argument in favor of qualia and against physicalism. Qualia are internal components of the senses that are a result of phenomena stimulating the senses with no purely physical information. Physicalism, on the other hand, argues that the physical world can account for everything humans experience. Jackson argues in favor of qualia thereby rejecting the idea that the physical world can explain everything. But Jackson’s argument does not successfully negate physicalism. Indeed
'Can non reductive physicalism solve the problem of mental causation?' Mental causation is one of the most discussed topics in the contemporary philosophy of mind. The question roughly goes as follows: how it is possible that a mental agent or event produces a change in the series of physical events? It just becomes more mysterious if we take into account that the physical world is looked upon by many as a closed and self-determined world which contains nothing like irreducible mental properties