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Quote: consciousness has a causal reduction but not an ontological reduction because it is inherently subjective and first-person

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consciousness

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When we come to consciousness, we cannot perform … [even though we have a causal reduction]. Consciousness is a causally emergent property of the behavior of … [p. 117] Suppose we tried to say the pain … reduction, the essential features of the pain would … character of the pain, simply because the first-person … [equivalent arguments from Nagel 1974, Kripke 1971, and Jackson 1982].   Google-1   Google-2

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