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The water-seeker thought experiment

Imagine a complete science of neurophysiology can determine the existence of a thought via a brain-o-scope—and a person possesses the "I want water" thought neurophysiology but can't become conscious of the thought.

The connection principle is then disproved by example.

Argument anticipated by John Searle (1990a).
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