If it is natural it is repeatable argument
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Science is based on experiments. Useful scientific experiments are based on the repeatability of results. Every person is an experiment into what a particular functioning grouping of matter will produce in terms of consciousness and ixperiencitness. We have a general idea about consciousness; if a person is alive, has a normal functioning brain, is not asleep, in a coma, or under the influences of certain drugs that renders a person unconsciousness, he will usually be conscious to some degree. We do not know what structure and functioning of the brain will produce what consciousness, but we do know that as the structure and functioning of the brain changes so does the consciousness generated or produced by the brain. Our understanding of ixperiencitness is more vague. It appears that we have the same ixperiencitness over at least part of our lives. If this is not true then we only exist for a moment or so of our body's life and then some one else experiences a moment and then someone else the next moment. This is a rather strange situation because we believe, in nearly each current conscious moment, that we experienced past conscious moments. This situation of only instantaneous conscious existence creates many problems with a scientific understanding of ixperiencitness. Why does the ixperiencitness change so quickly? How quickly does it change? What triggers this change? Does this (your) ixperiencitness show up some where else like in another body and if so for how long?
If we were to make a guess, it would appear that a person's ixperiencitness produced by a particular body lasts for at least part of a bodies life time. When a scientific experiment is carried out the scientific ratiocination derived from the experiment tries to determine what are the necessary conditions and what are the unnecessary conditions for producing the particular phenomena being studied.
If consciousness is a natural phenomena then it is repeatable. If ixperiencitness is a natural phenomena then it is repeatable. Ixperiencitness appears to be repeatable in the same body with different matter in a changing, thus different place and time, and with variations to the structure and functioning of the body, and with different environmental conditions. However, consciousness does not seem to repeat itself in the same body. This is because the body is constantly changing and does not appear to repeat itself exactly. The brain is what produces consciousness and even though it is repeating firing the same neurons over and over the pattern of firing is constantly changing.
Science needs repeatability of experimental results to make accurate predictions and valid explanations. If there is no repeatability in experimental results dealing with the production of consciousness and ixperiencitness by a body then there is no way to predict or even explain what consciousness and ixperiencitness a body will or can produce. This in a sense makes consciousness and ixperiencitness supernatural --- outside of the realm of the natural. But consciousness and ixperiencitness are naturally produced phenomena so they should be repeatable phenomena. The ixperiencit theory of consciousness predicts under what conditions consciousness and ixperiencitness are repeatable.