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Are mental events reducible to physical events?
"At the present time the status of physicalism is similar to that which the hypothesis that matter is energy would have had if uttered by a pre-Socratic philosopher. We do not have the beginnings of a conception of how it might be true. In order to understand the hypothesis that a mental event is a physical event, we require more than an understanding of the word 'is'. The idea of how a mental and a physical term might refer to the same thing is lacking, and the usual analogies with theoretical identification in other fields fail to supply it."

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How would you explain the alleged dependence of mental events on physical events?

Well,

let me solve the problem.

Is electricity dependent of physical events?

Id say so.

Mental events are often linked to elctricitificial activity.

Apart from that and without thinking of electricity at all,
anything in existence in whatever form,would be physical dependent.

I suggest anyone to prove,that there is anything in existence not dependent.
Anything.
Just one thing.
One very itchypitchyoolawitchy small transparent little not physical anything.

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