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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 5. Supervenience of mind
Supervenience gives good support for mental causation [Fodor]
     Full Idea: Mind/brain supervenience is the best idea anyone has had so far about how mental causation is possible.
     From: Jerry A. Fodor (Psychosemantics [1987], 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.