Strong emergence is impossible

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Yes, I am saying that consciousness cannot be an emergent property.

Gosh, you are making this hard work, bman! That looks like agreement with my contention but it isn’t really because of the word “emergent”.

I think you are taking your conclusion “consciousness isn’t emergent” as a premise and deriving “consciousness cannot be an emergent property” as a logical consequence.

No. You need to read my argument again. My argument is a reductio ad absurdum argument.

Now, if you are trying to show that 'the opposite scenario would lead to absurdity or contradiction, then providing a scenario that is Truly absurd and/or contradictory is not going to work. For obvious reasons.

your scenario is Truly absurd and contradictory "bahman".