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    It is not the case that A theory of mind that cannot account for mind-body causation is explanatorily defective and should be rejected in favor of a monist alternative.

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    • 1.Some non-monist views (like property dualism) grant that mental properties causally influence physical ones without requiring substance monism.
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    • 2.Monism itself faces explanatory challenges (e.g., physicalism struggles to explain consciousness; idealism struggles to explain physical regularity).
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    • 3.Rejecting a theory solely for not solving mind-body causation ignores whether competing theories solve it better or introduce worse problems.
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    • 1.Mental states causally influence physical behavior (e.g., decisions cause bodily movements), which any adequate theory must explain.
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    • 2.Dualism faces the interaction problem: if mind and body are fundamentally different substances, explaining their causal connection becomes deeply mysterious.
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    • 3.Monism (physicalism or idealism) avoids this problem by positing one fundamental kind of substance, making mind-body causation less puzzling.
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