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All the ideas for 'Semantics, Conceptual Role', 'Emergent Evolution' and 'Physical Causation'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

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Life has a new supervenient relation, which alters its underlying physical events [Morgan,L]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / c. Meaning by Role

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The meaning of a representation is its role in thought, perception or decisions [Block]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

4787	Causation interaction is an exchange of conserved quantities, such as mass, energy or charge [Dowe, by Psillos]

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Physical causation consists in transference of conserved quantities [Dowe, by Mumford/Anjum]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 9. Counterfactual Claims

4788	Dowe commends the Conserved Quantity theory as it avoids mention of counterfactuals [Dowe, by Psillos]