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    The impossibility of strict psychophysical laws reflects ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Strict lawlike relations between the mental and the physical are impossible.

    The impossibility of strict psychophysical laws reflects only our current conceptual limitations, not an in-principle metaphysical barrier.

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    • 1.Historical science repeatedly showed phenomena thought impossible were merely unexplained (e.g., germs, radioactivity, quantum effects).
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    • 2.Current psychophysical explanations fail due to inadequate conceptual frameworks, not fundamental indeterminacy in nature itself.
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    • 3.Consciousness may require novel explanatory categories we haven't yet developed, similar to how relativity extended Newtonian concepts.
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    • 1.Subjective phenomenal properties exhibit structural features (qualia) fundamentally absent from third-person physical descriptions by definition.
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    • 2.The explanatory gap persists despite advanced neuroscience, suggesting conceptual limitations may reflect actual metaphysical discontinuity.
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    • 3.Optimism that better concepts will bridge mind-body gap assumes closure we cannot justify—some gaps may be constitutive, not epistemic.
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