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The relationship between consciousness and physical laws is defined by debates over whether consciousness can be reduced to or explained by physical laws {fact:1, fact:4}, whether it is causally irrelevant due to the completeness of physical laws {fact:2, fact:3}, and whether an explanatory gap persists even when physical laws are fully specified [1].
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The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 2 facts
claimA non-reductive naturalistic theory of consciousness may propose natural supervenience of phenomenal properties on physical properties, provided it incorporates additional natural principles not found in physical law.
claimDavid Chalmers argues that physics emerges from the relations between entities, while consciousness emerges from their intrinsic nature, a view he claims is compatible with the causal closure of the microphysical and existing physical laws. He asserts that (proto)phenomenal properties serve as the ultimate categorical basis of all physical causation.
Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love 1 fact
claimSome philosophers argue that consciousness is causally irrelevant because physical laws are complete, meaning the consciousness aspect does not change physical outcomes.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
referenceIn the book 'The Conscious Mind' (1996), David Chalmers concludes that consciousness is irreducible to lower-level physical facts, similar to how fundamental laws of physics are irreducible to lower-level physical facts.
Hard Problem of Consciousness | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
perspectiveJoseph Levine asserts that consciousness presents an explanatory gap because, even with a complete specification of brain mechanisms and physical laws, it remains an open question whether consciousness is present.