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    Supports→Non-reductive physicalism is incoherent

    If mental properties are genuinely distinct from physical properties, they cannot be causally efficacious without violating the causal closure of the physical.

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    • 1.Physical events have sufficient physical causes; adding mental causes creates causal overdetermination absent in mature sciences.
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    • 2.If mental properties causally influence physical events, energy must transfer between mental and physical domains, violating conservation laws.
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    • 3.Only entities with physical properties can causally interact in spacetime; non-physical properties lack the causal mechanism to do so.
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    • 1.Mental properties may be constitutively identical to physical properties rather than distinct, making the premise's antecedent false.
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    • 2.Causal closure of the physical need not exclude mental causation if mental events are realized in physical events without being reducible to them.
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    • 3.Emergent properties can causally influence their base physical systems; mental causation may work similarly without violating physical laws.
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