A weakly reductive view of consciousness proceeds through the following steps: (1) identify stimuli that reliably trigger reports of phenomenally conscious states from subjects, (2) identify neural processes reliably correlated with those reported experiences, (3) argue based on parsimony that the reported conscious state is identical to the neural state, (4) accept the identity for its explanatory fruitfulness regarding mental causation, and (5) apply the phenomenal concepts strategy to explain why the identity remains counterintuitive.

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• Phenomenal Concept Strategy concept