ABSTRACT
The entailment of the transparency thesis from any ole’ mental thing to primitive immaterial particulars (i.e., subject/person primitives) requires that persons are created by God (i.e., minimal theistic dualism), which does exclude physicalism and what I will call “obscure” dualisms (e.g., pan-experientialism, Russellian monism, and hylomorphism) but it fits under some versions of “natural dualism.” Accurately defining the nature of the subject of conscious experience (S) requires that we move beyond phenomenal transparency (due to its falling into what is called the gap problem) to subject transparency (hence a haecceity).
