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    It is not the case that If the mind-body complex causally grounds all experience, moral agency, and psychological continuity, dismissing it as 'not fully real' undermines the very framework needed to explain suffering and liberation.

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    • 1.Non-dual traditions argue consciousness transcends causality; mind-body causation describes appearance, not ultimate reality.
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    • 2.Liberation may require recognizing mind-body as ultimately empty; treating it as foundational perpetuates attachment.
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    • 3.Functional explanations work without ontological commitment; causation can be pragmatically real yet metaphysically derivative.
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    • 1.Moral accountability requires causal agents; if mind-body is illusory, praise/blame become incoherent.
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    • 2.Suffering's reality grounds therapeutic intervention; dismissing its physical substrate denies genuine harm.
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    • 3.Psychological continuity depends on brain states; denying embodied mind severs memory from identity.
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