Conservation Laws and the Philosophy of Mind: Opening the Black Box, Finding a Mirror.
Philosophia (Ramat-Gan, Israel) 2020 J Brian Pitts
Since Leibniz's time, Cartesian mental causation has been criticized for violating the conservation of energy and momentum. (Non-epiphenomenalist property dualism is analogous.) Many dualist responses clearly fail. But conservation laws have important neglected features generally undermining the objection. Conservation is local, holding first not for the universe, but for everywhere separately....