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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Even if absences were events, wouldn't that still pose a problem? We generally ascribe consciousness to objects, not events.
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Yeah, so on the functionalist version of the argument, it wouldn’t be that the absence itself has a conscious experience, but that your conscious experience is identical with (or perhaps realized by) an absence. It seems weird. How could my visual experience right now be identicl
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