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    Consciousness must be integrated into physical causation,... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Russellian monism offers an elegant, unified solution to both the problem of grounding spatiotemporal structure and the problem of integrating consciousness into physical causation.

    Consciousness must be integrated into physical causation, which standard physicalism struggles to explain.

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    A second argument for Russellian monism is based on the claim that this theory offers an elegant, unified solution to two distinct philosophical problems (Lockwood 1989, 1992; Chalmers 1996, 2013 [2015: 254]; Rosenberg 2004; Goff 2017; cf. Russell 1927a, 1927b: 116). One of those problems is how to provide a foundation for the spatiotemporal structure physics describes. The other is how to integrate consciousness into physical causation. When considered from the perspective of a Russellian monis

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