Single Idea 3511

[catalogued under 17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 5. Supervenience of mind]

Full Idea

The argument for supervenience rests on the principle that any mental difference must be capable of showing itself in differential physical consequences.

Gist of Idea

Supervenience requires all mental events to have physical effects

Source

David Papineau (Philosophical Naturalism [1993], 1.8)

Book Reference

Papineau,David: 'Philosophical Naturalism' [Blackwell 1993], p.28


A Reaction

With our current knowledge of the brain, to assume anything less than this sort of correlation would be crazy.