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Consciousness and life are philosophically linked through debates on their reducibility, with life fully explainable by physics and chemistry unlike the experiential nature of consciousness [1], [2]; consciousness is described as an emergent property of life [3] and a fundamental field underlying life itself [4].
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Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 3 facts
claimDavid Chalmers contrasts the conceivability of a world without consciousness with worlds without life, genes, or water, noting that the latter are not remotely conceivable.
claimDavid Chalmers contends that in cases like water or life, low-level facts imply high-level facts without requiring primitive identity statements, whereas consciousness requires a primitive identity of a different kind.
claimDavid Chalmers argues that analogies comparing consciousness to water or life are irrelevant because they reverse the direction of explanation, which in reductive explanation must proceed from micro to macro.
Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love 2 facts
claimGalen Strawson argues that the analogy between life and consciousness is flawed because life, when defined in biological terms, is fully explainable by physics and chemistry as complicated order, whereas consciousness is experiential and not captured by structure alone.
quoteLife (without consciousness) reduces [to physics]; experience doesn’t.
Quantum Theory of Consciousness - Scirp.org. scirp.org 1 fact
claimThe hesitation in applying quantum physics to the study of consciousness or life stems from a lack of understanding regarding the metaphysical meaning of quantum physics.
Are there any main theories on the evolution of consciousness? reddit.com 1 fact
claimConsciousness is an emergent property of life.
Consciousness as the foundation: New theory addresses nature of ... phys.org 1 fact
referenceMaria Strømme's theoretical framework posits that consciousness is not a byproduct of brain activity, but rather a fundamental field underlying all experience, including matter, space, time, and life itself.