ABSTRACT
In this paper I want to explain, from a physicalist point of view, why so many peo ple are persuaded that consciousness is non-physical.
I take there to be good arguments, stemming from the need to integrate conscious events into the causal workings of the world, for identifying conscious states with physical states, and in what follows I shall take these arguments as read. At the same time there is no doubt that many people have strong intuitions that conscious ness cannot possibly be physical. My aim will be to explain how these intuitions arise, and why they do not discredit physicalism.
