The mechanistic objection presupposes a constitutive-causal conflation that interventionism explicitly dissolves by focusing on counterfactual dependence, not compositional identity.

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Compositional identity(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of mind): The idea that something is completely defined by what it's made of and how those parts are arranged together.
Constitutive-causal conflation(as used in metaphysics and causation theory): Mixing up two different ideas: what something is *made of* (its parts) versus what *causes* something to happen or change.
Interventionism(as used in philosophy of causation): A theory about causation that says event A causes event B if you could make B happen by directly intervening to change A (like flipping a light switch to turn on a light).
Mechanistic objection(as used in philosophy of science and metaphysics): A criticism claiming that something can be fully explained by breaking it down into smaller physical parts and how they interact, like explaining a watch by describing its gears.

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