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    It is not the case that Persons are paradigmatically subjects of experience, not abstract qualitative instances—Strawson's 'basic particulars' are irreducible to property bundles.

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    • 1.The 'irreducibility' claim relies on intuition unsupported by empirical evidence; neuroscience suggests persons just are complex physical systems.
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    • 2.Positing non-property-bundle substrates introduces mysterious non-categorical entities that violate parsimony without explanatory gain.
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    • 3.Property bundles with appropriate causal-relational structure can ground subjective unity and agency without invoking basic particulars.
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    • 1.Consciousness and subjective experience require a unified locus of awareness; property bundles lack the integration necessary for phenomenal unity.
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    • 2.Personal identity persists through qualitative change; a bundle theory cannot ground identity conditions across time without an underlying substrate.
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    • 3.We directly apprehend ourselves as agents and experiencers, not as mere collections of properties; introspection reveals an irreducible subject.
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