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    It is not the case that A philosophical position that requires quarantining well-confirmed physical laws from its domain of application bears a substantial burden of justification it has not discharged.

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    • 1.Some domains may require different levels of description; quarantining needn't deny physical laws but rather deny their relevance at that level.
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    • 2.Well-confirmed laws have limits: thermodynamics applies to bulk matter, not necessarily to quantum consciousness or emergence phenomena.
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    • 3.The burden should fall on those assuming reduction works, not those claiming certain domains require distinct explanatory frameworks.
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    • 1.Well-confirmed physical laws have predictive and explanatory power across diverse contexts, making exclusions prima facie suspicious.
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    • 2.Ad hoc domain restrictions without empirical evidence risk protecting theories from falsification rather than pursuing truth.
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    • 3.Scientific progress historically comes from expanding law-governed explanations, not quarantining phenomena from physical principles.
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