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    If the soul's operations are causally dependent on bodily... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The body cannot affect the soul, but the soul can affect the body

    If the soul's operations are causally dependent on bodily conditions, the body exercises genuine causal influence over the soul.

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    • 1.Observable facts show soul operations (thought, emotion, will) vary with brain states, neural chemistry, and bodily health conditions.
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    • 2.Causal dependence means B influences A when A's states regularly vary with B's states. Soul operations clearly satisfy this criterion.
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    • 3.Denying body-to-soul causation requires implausible pre-established harmony or eliminates the soul's explanatory role entirely.
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    • 1.Dependence ≠ causation. A shadow depends on a light source but doesn't cause light. Soul operations may depend on but not be caused by body.
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    • 2.The claim equivocates 'causal influence.' Bodily conditions may be necessary prerequisites without being genuine efficient causes of soul states.
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    • 3.If the soul is immaterial substance, physical causation may be metaphysically impossible regardless of empirical correlations observed.
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