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    It is not the case that Entities conceptualized as processes can be physically realized without being literally embodied.

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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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    • 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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