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    Challenges→The soul is not joined immediately only to the animal spirits in the brain's concavities.

    If soul-body union requires material continuity, the soul's own immateriality already violates this standard, making the spirits' flux irrelevant as an objection.

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    • 1.Material continuity as a union requirement assumes physicalism; immaterial souls inherently operate under different metaphysical principles.
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    • 2.The objection conflates two distinct issues: material continuity (body) versus immaterial continuity (soul), making it a category error.
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    • 3.If souls can interact with matter at all, requiring material continuity for that interaction is an additional constraint without independent justification.
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    • 1.Union itself requires some shared relational property; immaterial-material union demands explanation of what makes such bonding possible.
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    • 2.Dismissing the flux objection as irrelevant assumes the soul-body problem already solved; it hasn't explained how unity persists across change.
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    • 3.If the soul lacks material continuity, we need an alternative account of persistence through time; 'immateriality' alone doesn't provide one.
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