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

    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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    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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