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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Yeah, I think the lack of an intrinsic nature is the best basis for saying that absences being conscious is less plausible than electrons being conscious. (But: if you’re a functionalist about consciousness, you’ve already given up on intrinsicality, opening the door for
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absences to be realizers of phenomenal properties.)
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