Powerful qualities in type B physicalism

In a LessWrong post, jessicata explores how two philosophical views—Type B physicalism and powerful qualities theory—actually reinforce each other. Both solve the same puzzle: how can consciousness feel irreducible to physics while being purely physical? Both propose that our concepts can divide reality differently from how reality itself divides. Specialized metaphysics, but it offers new ground on the hard problem of consciousness.

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