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    If mind exploits quantum indeterminacy to select among physically equiprobable outcomes, it redirects rather than injects energy, yet still guides physical causation non-physically.

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    Non-physical causation(describes how the mind might guide physical events)
    When something immaterial (like a thought or mind) causes something physical to happen, without being made of matter itself.
    Physical causation(contrasted with moral causation in the statement)
    The way physical objects and forces cause other things to happen according to the laws of nature—like how gravity makes a ball fall or how neurons firing in your brain causes your muscles to contract.
    Physically equiprobable outcomes(what the mind supposedly selects from)
    Different possible results that have an equal chance of happening according to the laws of physics.
    Quantum indeterminacy(as another argument Pereboom uses)
    The scientific idea from quantum physics that some events at the smallest scales are truly random and unpredictable, not predetermined.

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    Redirects rather than injects energy(explains how the mind could influence the physical world without violating energy conservation)
    The idea that the mind guides things by steering existing energy in new directions, rather than creating energy from nothing.

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