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    Challenges→Global supervenience and strong individual supervenience are not equivalent concepts.

    Global supervenience entails strong individual supervenience when combined with the assumption that possible worlds are individuated solely by their intrinsic qualitative character.

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    Intrinsic qualitative character(as used in philosophy of mind)
    The unique 'feel' or subjective quality of an experience as it appears to you personally, independent of whether it matches reality.
    global supervenience(Modal supervenience relations in philosophy of mind and metaphysics)
    A globally supervenes on B if and only if no two possible worlds share the same global pattern of distribution of B-properties while differing in their global pattern of distribution of A-properties.
    individuated(Chodorow's account of boys' psychological development)
    Feeling oneself to be separate or distinct from others, as a result of identifying with an absent parent
    possible worlds(Leibniz's modal semantics, anticipating contemporary possible-worlds semantics)
    Worlds that have existence in a tenuous sense; fictional worlds used to characterize the nature of possibles that are never actualized

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    strong individual supervenience(Metaphysics of supervenience; contrasted with global supervenience)
    A supervenience relation holding at the level of individual entities, such that any two individuals alike in subvening properties are alike in supervening properties
    supervenience(Philosophy of mind and reduction; contrasted with full reduction)
    A relation in which mental (or higher-level) states are dependent on physiological (or lower-level) states such that any two cases with identical lower-level bases are identical in their higher-level states; a necessary but not sufficient condition for reduction.

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