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    Entities conceptualized as processes can be physically realized without being literally embodied.

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    • 1.Functional organization, not spatial embodiment, determines process identity—as Putnam's multiple realizability thesis demonstrates for mental states.
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    • 2.A process individuated by its causal-functional role (e.g., information transfer, homeostatic regulation) remains the same process across physically distinct substrates.
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    • 3.The objection conflates spatio-temporal trackability with physical embodiment: a process can be re-identified via its relational structure without occupying a continuous material locus.
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    • 1.Whitehead's ontology treats 'actual occasions' as processes whose reality consists in prehensive relations, not in occupying a determinate material body.
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    • 2.If process identity is constituted by patterns of causally connected events—as Salmon's mark-transmission theory of causation implies—then no persisting material substrate is required for physical realization.
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    • 1.We can point at certain processes and distinguish them (e.g., 'this trickle versus that trickle').
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    • 2.We can re-identify certain processes across time (e.g., 'the trickle was gone for a minute, but then it came again').
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    • 3.In nature's spatio-temporal framework we distinguish and re-identify both things and processes.
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    All of the conditions that Strawson requires in step (3) (diversity, richness, stability, and endurance or transtemporal sameness) arguably are fulfilled as much by the entities that we conceptualize as physical processes as by entities that “are or possess bodies.” For example, William Penn (2022) recently argued for an exclusively process-based version of scientific realism—already the praxis of natural science, but in particular also the scientific models for the fundamental constitution of m
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