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Physicalism and determinism are logically independent

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comical gas station round eye
  10/02/26
gemini said this i think i just dont understand physicalism....
cracking clown
  10/02/26
Yeah that's actually Kim's causal exclusion problem. But wha...
comical gas station round eye
  10/02/26
i think SUPERVENIENCE is cope and smuggles in cartesian dual...
cracking clown
  10/02/26
I think causal closure of the physical is the key premise he...
comical gas station round eye
  10/02/26
Kim is an epiphenomenalist irrc
cracking clown
  10/02/26


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Date: October 2nd, 2026 11:18 AM
Author: comical gas station round eye



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Date: October 2nd, 2026 11:20 AM
Author: cracking clown

gemini said this i think i just dont understand physicalism. if you have physical state P1 and mental state M1 that cause P2/M2 why isnt P1 sufficient to cause P2 and then its just epiphenomenalism?

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Date: October 2nd, 2026 11:23 AM
Author: comical gas station round eye

Yeah that's actually Kim's causal exclusion problem. But what about under identity theory when you've got SUPERVENIENCE happneing?

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Date: October 2nd, 2026 11:27 AM
Author: cracking clown

i think SUPERVENIENCE is cope and smuggles in cartesian dualism. you have to be radical about the identity and basically claim p1/m1 are indistinguishable, and you cant make any causal claims about p1 separate from m1. that's illogical under identity theories

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Date: October 2nd, 2026 11:27 AM
Author: comical gas station round eye

I think causal closure of the physical is the key premise here. not determinism.

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Date: October 2nd, 2026 11:30 AM
Author: cracking clown

Kim is an epiphenomenalist irrc

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5908845&forum_id=2#50166711)