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Consciousness and reductionism are interconnected through debates and theories where reductionist approaches seek to explain consciousness via physical processes, as in Koch's book 'Consciousness: Confessions of a romantic reductionist' [1], Frank Jackson's Mary argument in the reductionism versus emergentism debate [2], and Chalmers' arguments [3]. Reductionist views explicitly argue that mental phenomena of consciousness can be reduced to physical descriptions [4], with proponents like Ned Block [5], panqualityists [6], and Hans Flohr [7] advocating physicalistic reductionism.

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claimNed Block holds a reductionist (physical) approach to the debate regarding the relationship between consciousness and the physical universe.
claimReductionist views of consciousness argue that mental phenomena can be explained through descriptions of physical phenomena.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1 fact
claimPanqualityists typically propose a functionalist, reductionist account of how unexperienced qualities become experienced, asserting that for a quality to be experienced, it must play a specific causal role within the cognitive capacities of an organism.
(PDF) Unifying Theories of Consciousness, Attention, and ... academia.edu Academia.edu 1 fact
referenceKoch, C. (2012) explores consciousness in the book 'Consciousness: Confessions of a romantic reductionist' published by MIT Press.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1 fact
perspectiveHans Flohr's approach to consciousness is physicalistic and reductionistic, but it is entirely independent of any specific quantum ideas.