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    Challenges→Causally interacting mental events must be token-identical with physical events.

    If singular causation obtains independently of law-subsumption, mental events can cause physical events under their mental descriptions without needing to instantiate any physical property.

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    Key Terms

    Instantiate (or instantiates)(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of mind)
    To create a specific example or instance of something; to embody or realize something concrete.
    Law-subsumption(as used in philosophy of science and causation)
    Explaining something by showing how it falls under a general scientific law or rule (like explaining why a ball falls by appealing to the law of gravity).
    Mental descriptions(in philosophy of mind)
    Describing an action in terms of thoughts and feelings rather than just physical movements—like saying 'she decided to leave' instead of 'her legs moved toward the door.'
    Mental events(as used in philosophy of mind)
    Things that happen in your mind, like thoughts, sensations, or experiences.
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    (as used in philosophy of mind)
    Observable things that happen in the material world, like objects moving, bodies changing, or neurons firing in the brain.
    Singular causation(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of mind)
    When one specific thing directly causes another specific thing to happen, rather than causation working through general rules or laws.
    physical property(what Mary already knew scientifically)
    A characteristic or feature of something that can be measured or studied by science, like color, size, or chemical composition.

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