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    If heat accompanying emotions like fear is causally entan... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→All heat and all movements present in us, insofar as they do not depend on thought, belong solely to the body.

    If heat accompanying emotions like fear is causally entangled with intentional states, attributing it solely to body misrepresents its explanatory origin.

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    • 1.Intentional states like fear conceptually involve threat-appraisal, which causally triggers heat; thus heat's origin is partly constituted by intentional content.
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    • 2.Explaining heat solely through bodily mechanisms omits the representational properties that individuate why *this* heat occurs rather than another's.
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    • 3.If mental content causally influences neural processes generating heat, attributing it exclusively to body severs the causal chain at an arbitrary point.
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    • 1.Heat is a physical property with complete physical causal explanation; invoking intentional states adds no novel causal work beyond neural mechanisms.
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    • 2.Causal entanglement between intentional states and heat doesn't show heat originates from intentionality—only that they co-occur dependently.
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    • 3.Distinguishing 'explanatory origin' from physical causation conflates epistemic convenience with metaphysical fact about what produces the heat itself.
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