An unoccupied position in logical space: absences are conscious. Right now, there is no trash can in my office. The absence of this trash can is itself conscious—at least that’s the idea. If absences have causal powers, why can’t they be conscious?
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Is the idea that any absence is also identical with some presence? So for instance, the gardener’s failure to water the plant is identical with whatever positive event he was doing instead at the time, like taking a nap?
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Yup! That's it. The idea was that absences that play causal roles would at least be identical with some presence. But I just fired that tweet off while cooking without really thinking about it, so no need to take this idea too seriously :)
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