Full Idea
Experimentation presupposes mental-to-physical causation and is impossible without it.
Gist of Idea
Experiment requires mental causation
Source
Jaegwon Kim (Philosophy of Mind [1996], p.128)
Book Reference
Kim,Jaegwon: 'Philosophy of Mind' [Westview 1998], p.128
A Reaction
So an epiphenomenalist can't do experiments? Kim implies that there is some special mental assessment of the feedback from physical events, but presumably a robot or a zombie could do experiments. Spiders do experiments.