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    A similar, less-than-deductive criterion should suffice for explaining how consciousness might be caused or realized by nonconscious items

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    • 1.In the economic case, a general and less-than-deductive understanding of how economic properties are underlain by physical ones is accepted as adequate
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    • 2.The explanatory situation for consciousness and nonconscious physical items is analogous to the economic-physical case
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    • 1.Economic properties lack intrinsic qualitative character, while phenomenal consciousness essentially involves subjective 'what it is like' properties.
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    • 2.The explanatory gap for qualia is not merely epistemic but ontological: no functional story explains why physical processes produce experience rather than nothing.
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    • 3.Chalmers' hard problem demonstrates that the economic analogy fails precisely because consciousness resists third-person functional characterization.
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    • 1.Levine's explanatory gap argument shows that even a complete causal-functional account of consciousness leaves the qualitative character unexplained in principle.
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    • 2.A 'less-than-deductive' standard is acceptable only when residual gaps are attributable to complexity, not to a categorical difference in the explanandum's nature.
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    Nonetheless our deductive inability is not seen as cause for ontological misgivings; there is no “money-matter” problem. All that we require is some general and less than deductive understanding of how economic properties and relations might be underlain by physical ones. Thus one might opt for a similar criterion for interpreting the How question and for what counts as explaining how consciousness might be caused or realized by nonconscious items. However, some critics, such as Kim (1987), have
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