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(I) Plausible Examples of Mental Causation
a. Utterances about phenomenal consciousness
b. The placebo effect
(II) Popper’s Deductive Evolutionary Argument
(III) James’s Abductive Evolutionary Argument

Citations for this episode can be found here: audioboom.com/posts/7606144-24-why-epiphenomenalism-is-almost-certainly-false

emersongreenblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/12/why-epiphenomenalism-is-almost-certainly-false

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00:00 Introduction

03:31 a short argument against epiphenomenalism

05:41 misc.

08:00 the placebo effect

11:07 Popper’s Deductive Evolutionary Argument

13:40 James’s Abductive Evolutionary Argument

17:30 why is anyone an epiphenomenalist?

18:57 a better solution

20:53 mental causation =/= free will

22:04 Returning to the Abductive Evolutionary Argument

24:30 the multiverse can't save you

26:23 emergence and epiphenomena