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    It is not the case that If nature merely 'ordains' that movements produce sensations, the explanatory work is done by an unexplained legislative act, not by any causal mechanism.

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    • 1.Fundamental laws of nature (gravity, electromagnetism) are themselves 'ordained' yet remain scientifically legitimate explanations.
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    • 2.The claim assumes causal mechanisms exist between sensation and movement; perhaps psychophysical correlations are primitive facts.
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    • 3.Demanding a mechanism beyond the ordination risks infinite regress—what explains the mechanism itself?
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    • 1.Invoking 'ordination' without mechanism merely relabels ignorance rather than explaining the mind-body connection.
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    • 2.True causal explanation requires specifying how physical events produce mental states, not just asserting they do.
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    • 3.Brute legislative facts exempt themselves from rational scrutiny in ways that mechanistic accounts do not.
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