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David Chalmers uses water as a primary philosophical example to illustrate the nature of reductive explanation and logical possibility, specifically contrasting it with consciousness in [1], [2], [3], and [4].

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Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net Journal of Consciousness Studies 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.
The Conscious Mind - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org David Chalmers · Oxford University Press 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers argues that conceivability can inform logical possibility, using the example that it is inconceivable for the properties of H2O to remain the same while the properties of water change, as facts about H2O explain everything about water.