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Water and life are linked as examples of high-level phenomena whose existence is necessitated by low-level facts, as discussed by David Chalmers in [1]. Chalmers uses both as points of comparison to illustrate the conceivability of worlds lacking these properties [2] and to critique reductive explanations of consciousness [3].
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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.