David Chalmers claims that because no functional characterization of consciousness is available, reductive explanation fails, leaving two options: either eliminate consciousness entirely or add it to our ontology as an unreduced feature of reality, similar to gravity and electromagnetism.

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  Hard Problem of Consciousness | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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