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    It is not the case that Interactionism does not violate the conservation of energy principle

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    • 1.The 'causally isolated system' exemption is a methodological assumption within physics, not a metaphysical loophole available to dualists on demand.
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    • 2.Treating the body as non-isolated requires positing an external energy source, which empirically commits the interactionist to measurable energy inputs with no physical origin.
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    • 3.No such anomalous energy signatures have been detected in neurological systems, making interactionism empirically self-undermining rather than merely conceptually coherent.
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    • 1.Huxley, Mach, and the epiphenomenalist tradition argued that conservation laws were precisely what forced the retreat from interactionism to epiphenomenalism in the 19th century.
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    • 2.Dismissing conservation as 'irrelevant' reverses the historical direction of argument without explaining why the scientific consensus that motivated epiphenomenalism was mistaken.
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    • 3.A philosophical position that requires quarantining well-confirmed physical laws from its domain of application bears a substantial burden of justification it has not discharged.
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    • 1.The conservation of energy principle applies only to causally isolated systems
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    • 2.The interactionist denies that the human body is a causally isolated system
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    • 3.Therefore the conservation principle is irrelevant to evaluating interactionism
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