If multiply realizable mental states can be unified under psychological kinds that abstract over physical heterogeneity, purely psychological laws of the form 'M1 & M2 → M3' need not be undermined by physical intervention any more than biological or economic laws are.
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Categories of mental phenomena (like 'anger' or 'memory') that we group together based on how they function, ignoring the physical details of how they work in different brains.
Undermined(as used in logic and argumentation)
Weakened or damaged; when something is undermined, it loses its strength or credibility.
mental states(Herder's theory of mind)
Conditions consisting in forces that manifest themselves in people's bodily behavior, conceptually tied to corresponding types of bodily behavior but not reducible thereto
psychological laws(as used in philosophy of mind and action)
Fixed rules about how the mind works that always produce the same results under the same conditions, like a scientific law in physics.