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    It is not the case that Panpsychism per se is not inconsistent with physicalism.

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    • 1.Physicalism requires that all facts supervene on physical facts characterized by physics, which makes no reference to intrinsic experiential properties.
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    • 2.Panpsychism posits that micro-level entities possess intrinsic phenomenal properties irreducible to the structural-relational properties physics describes.
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    • 3.Therefore panpsychism introduces a category of fundamental facts that violates the supervenience base physicalism requires, making them incompatible.
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    • 1.The supporting argument's inference from 'some conscious beings exist compatibly with physicalism' to 'everything being conscious is compatible' commits a fallacy of composition.
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    • 2.Physicalism permits consciousness only where it is realized by sufficiently complex physical organization, as Jaegwon Kim's realization view requires.
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    • 3.Universal attribution of consciousness to all physical entities, including electrons, entails consciousness without functional or organizational realization, which Kim-style physicalism explicitly prohibits.
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    • 1.The existence of some conscious beings is not contrary to physicalism.
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    • 2.If the existence of some conscious beings is compatible with physicalism, then the possibility that everything is a conscious being is also compatible with physicalism.
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