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    The soul, if immaterial and unextended, cannot interact c... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The pineal gland is the principal seat of the rational soul and the place where all thoughts are formed.

    The soul, if immaterial and unextended, cannot interact causally with any specific physical location in the body.

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    • 1.Causation requires spatio-temporal contact or field mediation; immaterial entities lack both capacities.
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    • 2.Physical specificity demands spatial location; immaterial substances cannot occupy determinate brain regions.
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    • 3.Interaction laws require measurable energy transfer; immaterial souls cannot satisfy conservation principles.
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    • 1.Mental causation is observationally real; desires cause bodily movement despite philosophical difficulties.
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    • 2.Immateriality may permit non-spatial causation modes physics hasn't categorized or can't measure yet.
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    • 3.The claim conflates physical location with causal specificity; immaterial agents might target via functional role instead.
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