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6148 | Human organisms can exercise downward causation [Merricks] |
Full Idea: Human organisms have non-redundant causal powers, and so can exercise downward causation. | |
From: Trenton Merricks (Objects and Persons [2003], §4.VII) | |
A reaction: The hallmark of property dualism. This notion needs a lot more expansion and exploration than Merricks gives it, and I don't think it will be enough to provide 'free will', or even, as Merricks hopes, to place humans in a distinct ontological category. |