>reductive approaches to consciousness

There 100% must be reductive approaches to consciousness because consciousness lives on a gradient.

If your definition of consciousness exists on as a point like an electron, something that only exists as a whole, then you've already flunked out of the study of consciousness. It is wildly complex. Has a great number of pieces. Manifests itself in different ways in different animals. You have to explain what consciousness is in that framework, and not from your own subjective experiences.

Right if my view was some ridiculous position you just invent to try to embarrass me then it would be ridiculous. Brilliant logic.

I don’t think you know what reduction means here and you don’t actually engage with what I write here and on other posts so I don’t care to explain.