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    A property that adds no new causal powers cannot be 'genu... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Mind is a genuinely new quality in the world despite its physical origins.

    A property that adds no new causal powers cannot be 'genuinely new' in any ontologically significant sense.

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    • 1.Ontological significance fundamentally concerns what exists and makes a difference in the world's causal structure.
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    • 2.If a property produces no causal effects, it cannot be empirically detected or make any difference to what happens.
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    • 3.Properties that make no difference are metaphysically idle and fail to justify expanding our ontology beyond existing entities.
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    • 1.Causal power is only one dimension of ontological significance; intrinsic properties, aesthetic properties, and mathematical structures matter independently.
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    • 2.A property can be genuinely novel in its categorical type or relational profile without adding net new causal powers to a system.
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    • 3.Consciousness, qualia, and formal structures appear ontologically significant to most people despite unclear causal contributions.
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