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    It is not the case that Mental states such as pain, fear, and desire are systematically caused by and causally efficacious upon bodily states.

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    • 1.Correlation between neural and mental events doesn't establish causal direction; they may be identical, not related.
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    • 2.Mental properties like intentionality lack the spatial extension needed to cause physical events mechanically.
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    • 3.The explanatory gap persists: no physical mechanism explains how subjective experience causally moves matter.
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    • 1.Neuroscience shows reliable correlations between mental states and brain activity, suggesting causal dependency.
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    • 2.Pain's disappearance when we anesthetize neural tissue demonstrates mental states depend on physical causation.
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    • 3.Evolution explains mental states as adaptive responses shaped by their capacity to cause bodily behavior.
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