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    It is not the case that The Seventh Circuit example conflates ontological reduction with conceptual or social irreducibility; legal powers may still be realized by physical configurations of brains and institutions.

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    • 1.If legal powers are fully realized by physical brain-institution configurations, their apparent irreducibility may reflect epistemic limitations, not ontological facts.
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    • 2.The distinction between ontological and conceptual reduction risks becoming vacuous if all causal work flows through the physical level.
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    • 3.This framework assumes institutions have independent causal powers, but they may be merely patterns of individual physical behaviors without autonomous status.
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    • 1.Physical realizability doesn't require conceptual reducibility; water is H2O physically but 'water' remains conceptually distinct and useful.
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    • 2.Legal powers depend on institutional recognition and social consensus, which cannot be derived from neurobiological facts alone.
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    • 3.Successful science regularly explains phenomena using higher-level concepts irreducible to lower levels (e.g., temperature, genes, ecosystems).
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