Questions tagged [mental-causation]

If I didn't experience consciousness mentally then I couldn't talk about consciousness with my physical mouth or write about consciousness with my physical hands. Is this an instance of mental events causing physical events?

P1: My opinions change as a result of brain function P2: Brain function is caused by opinions stored within it (slightly dodgy premise but if you wouldn't mind assuming it to be true, whether it is true or false has no bearing to my question rather…

If mental causation exists, then mental phenomena would affect the bodies of sentient beings. Then the bodies of sentient beings (and only they) would be affected by an additional set of causal phenomena compared to all other physical…

When we say that John caused the movement of his arm, what do we really mean? Presumably, John’s decision to move the arm is caused by the laws underpinning his brain. Either these laws are indeterministic if quantum mechanics in its current state…