Biological essentialism faces challenges from a rationalist perspective, including the lack of justification for privileging biology, the inability to explain why biological implementation is uniquely necessary for consciousness, the violation of the principle of substrate independence, and the creation of arbitrary distinctions regarding hybrid or partially artificial systems.

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