Causal topology and non-material causes

• Main Author: Alexey Vladimirovich Safronov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editorial AAR 2021-05-01
• Series: Laplage em Revista
• Subjects: Consciousness; Mental causation; Non-material event; Causal topology; Non-material cause
• Online Access: https://laplageemrevista.editorialaar.com/index.php/lpg1/article/view/867

The principle of physical causal closure makes the problem of the ontology of consciousness insoluble since the principle rejects the possibility of mental causation. However, this principle is based on the linear causality model the foundation of which is the connection of material events with each other. The article deals with the possibility of mental causation based on non-material events, reflecting the influence of probability on probability, and not an event on an event. A hypothetical model is considered, in which one state of activity of neural processes in the brain can correspond to various mental states that differ from each other, however, not content-wise but within the framework of a non-material property. The non-material property is defined as the likelihood of mental assessments and, in essence, is the causal topology of mental processes.