Full Idea
When someone pronounces for downward causation they are in opposition to science.
Gist of Idea
Science is opposed to downward causation
Source
J Ladyman / D Ross (Every Thing Must Go [2007], 1.6 n54)
Book Reference
Ladyman,J/Ross,D: 'Every Thing Must Go' [OUP 2007], p.57
A Reaction
Downward causation is the key issue in any debate about whether minds exhibit excitingly 'emergent' properties that somehow put them outside the realm of normal physics. I take that to be nonsense, and I side with science here.