Full Idea
Mind/brain supervenience is the best idea anyone has had so far about how mental causation is possible.
Gist of Idea
Supervenience gives good support for mental causation
Source
Jerry A. Fodor (Psychosemantics [1987], p. 30)
Book Reference
Fodor,Jerry A.: 'Psychosemantics' [MIT 1993], p.30
A Reaction
I would have thought that mind brain identity was a much better idea (see Idea 3440). Supervenience seems to prove that 'mental causation' occurs, but doesn't explain it.
Related Idea
Idea 3440 Without reductionism, mental causation is baffling [Kim]