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+$title = "On Epiphenomenalism";

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+<p>

+	Our model of the universe and of life is a generally causal one. Our brains are optimized to make decisions based on what they will cause. Consider a baby--their learning is centred on the causal relationships between their nerve impulses and their muscle movements.

+	A toddler, now, has mostly mastered this. Instead, they are discovering the broader causality of macro-movements. They are learning of force, of gravity, of pain. An older child who has developed these skills is now working out the relationships between the mental states of others and their actions, and it is with this that we are concerned. You see, it is quickly discovered by children that 

+	It is generally the belief of 

+	There is a name for this critical principle: causal closure of the physical. Causal closure of the physical dictates that every effect must have a physical cause; an assumption that is generally shared by most men of science, and of those who subscribe generally to enlightenment thought.

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