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    If consciousness concepts are themselves revisable or eli... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Facts about the psychophysical link are cognitively closed to humans

    If consciousness concepts are themselves revisable or eliminable, as Churchland argues, the explanatory target may dissolve rather than remain permanently inaccessible.

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    • 1.Folk psychology successfully revised phlogiston and vitalism, showing conceptual frameworks can dissolve when empirically unsupported.
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    • 2.If neuroscience explains behavior without invoking subjective experience, consciousness concepts become explanatorily idle and eliminable.
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    • 3.Conceptual dissolution solves the hard problem by eliminating the apparent explanatory gap rather than bridging an impossible chasm.
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    • 1.Consciousness is directly self-evident through first-person experience in ways phlogiston never was, making elimination incoherent.
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    • 2.Revising consciousness concepts requires explaining why the revised concepts explain the same subjective phenomena the originals targeted.
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    • 3.Eliminativism about consciousness undermines the normative and ethical frameworks that depend on recognizing conscious subjects.
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