The Consciousness Deniers
The author almost finds his way out of his impasse:<p>&quot;Proponents of this view insist that their position does not eliminate consciousness, but instead reduces it to something else. They’re right, formally speaking... When you reduce chemical processes to physical processes, you don’t deny that chemical processes exist.&quot;<p>...but instead of following through, he returns to the truisms of his chosen tribe: &quot;All true. And yet, to reduce consciousness to behavior and dispositions to behavior is to eliminate it. To say that consciousness is really nothing more than (dispositions to) behavior is to say that it doesn’t exist.&quot; The use of the phrase &quot;really nothing more than...&quot; is the response of someone who doesn&#x27;t want to pursue the issue further.