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Consciousness
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Whether because they are traditional dualists, or because they think that consciousness is an as-yet-undescribed fundamental constituent of the physical universe, some philosophers maintain that consciousness is not explainable in familiar scientific terms. Such non-reductive accounts of consciousness (with the possible exception of those based in anthropocentric theology) provide no principled ontological reasons... for doubting that animals are conscious.
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