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    If dualism is true, consciousness in at least some of its types may be basic and fundamental, and thus cannot be explained as arising from nonconscious items.

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    • 1.If dualism is true, then consciousness in at least some of its types may be basic and fundamental.
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    • 2.If consciousness is basic and fundamental, it does not arise from nonconscious items.
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    • 3.If consciousness does not arise from nonconscious items, then explaining how consciousness arises from nonconscious items is impossible.
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    • 1.Property dualism, as defended by Chalmers, holds that phenomenal properties are fundamental yet supervenient on physical substrates, not wholly inexplicable.
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    • 2.Supervenience relations between physical and phenomenal properties constitute a form of dependence that allows systematic explanation even if not reductive elimination.
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    • 3.Therefore, dualism does not entail that consciousness is unexplainable, only that its explanation terminates in brute psychophysical laws rather than reduction.
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    • 1.Russellian monism, advanced by Galen Strawson and others, treats phenomenal properties as the intrinsic categorical bases of physical dispositions, dissolving the dualist/physicalist dichotomy.
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    • 2.If consciousness is constitutive of the intrinsic nature of matter rather than ontologically separate from it, the claim that dualism renders consciousness inexplicable rests on a false dilemma.
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    • 3.The inference from 'consciousness is fundamental' to 'consciousness cannot be explained via nonconscious items' illicitly assumes that fundamentality excludes all structural or compositional accounts.
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    Positive answers to some versions of the How questions seem near at hand, but others appear to remain deeply baffling. Nor should we assume that every version has a positive answer. If dualism is true, then consciousness in at least some of its types may be basic and fundamental. If so,we will not be able to explain how it arises from nonconscious items since it simply does not do so.
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