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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So, to start, take the original tweet in the spirit of partly a troll and only partly a real argument. One thought is: if panpsychism is (vulgarly formulated) the thesis that everything is conscious, well then absences exist (as evidenced by the fact they enter into causal...
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relations), so why not say they’re conscious too? But then, a second, distinct line of argument emerged in the thread. It says: suppose we are functionalists about consciousness. Well, absences should be able to occupy the functional roles of conscious properties, in which case
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