Full Idea
For Searle the supervenience relation is just causality.
Gist of Idea
Is supervenience just causality?
Source
report of John Searle (The Rediscovery of the Mind [1992], Ch. 5.V) by Keith T. Maslin - Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind 7.6
Book Reference
Maslin,Keith: 'An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind' [Polity 2001], p.205
A Reaction
'Supervenience' seems, in that case, to be an irrelevant word, which was only used when the mind-body connection was a bit loose and mysterious. Mind is identical to brain, or a property of the brain. I like 'process of the brain'.