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  • If there’s a new force or field, then it’s still physical,

    That depends how you define your terms, but under most definitions I don’t think that this is always going to be the case

    But that’s not what you’re talking about, I think. It’s more like the notion of life

    I’m not taking about life, I’m talking about consciousness which is a separate topic

    And yes, you can consider consciousness as some sort of other fundamental order, but it’s not scientifi

    Why?

    it specifically cannot be since we can not measure it.

    We can measure it indirectly (eg by people telling us about their conscious experiences) which is good enough for empirical study