Churchland argued that one problem with dualism is its explanatory impotence. By this he meant that physicalism does a good job of explaining the world, and adding nonphysical substances or properties doesn't help explain anything. What response would Jackson make to this?
A) Physicalism doesn't do a good job of explaining anything about the world.
B) Physicalism doesn't do a good job of explaining qualia such as the experience of color.
C) The mind must be a nonphysical substance for us to have color experiences.
D) The mind must be a nonphysical substance for us to have any experiences.

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Jackson would argue that physicalism fails to account for the subjective experience of qualia, such as what it's like to see a specific color, which is a point against the explanatory completeness of physicalism.

Churchland Argued That One Problem with Dualism Is Its Explanatory