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    The escape strategy presupposes that thought-parts can be... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The proposed escape from panpsychism — that having a thought as a part does not entail being a thinking thing — is itself absurd.

    The escape strategy presupposes that thought-parts can be concatenated into a non-thinking whole, but this is precisely the move the combination problem shows to be explanatorily incoherent.

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    Concatenated(as used in this philosophy statement)
    Linked or joined together in a chain or sequence, like connecting links in a chain.
    Explanatorily incoherent(as a problem with the proposed causal explanation)
    Failing to make logical sense; unable to be explained in a way that actually accounts for what's happening without contradictions.
    Thought-parts(as used in panpsychism debates)
    Individual pieces of consciousness or mind that, according to panpsychism, exist in basic particles or smaller components of larger systems.
    combination problem(challenge primarily for constitutive panpsychism)
    The problem of explaining how more basic forms of consciousness combine to produce complex human or animal consciousness
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    (Used here to describe the consequence of IIT that even simple devices possess some degree of consciousness)
    The view that consciousness or mental properties are present in many or all physical systems, including simple ones

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