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    If the dichotomy of bodies and minds is not exhaustive, t... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The first mover must be a mind.

    If the dichotomy of bodies and minds is not exhaustive, the elimination of body as first mover does not entail mind is the only remaining candidate.

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    • 1.Ontological categories (physical, mental, abstract, relational) exist beyond the body-mind dichotomy.
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    • 2.Excluding one category from causation doesn't logically eliminate all other categories by necessity.
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    • 3.Examples like mathematical truths or social structures causally influence events without being body or mind.
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    • 1.Any purported third category ultimately depends on physical or mental substrates to have causal efficacy.
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    • 2.The claim conflates logical possibility with metaphysical plausibility; other candidates lack explanatory power.
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    • 3.If bodies and minds exhaust what actually exists, the dichotomy's non-exhaustiveness is merely conceptual, not ontological.
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