(2024-12-30, 11:24 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: I hope the examples provide clarity to what I was looking for, but I can try to explain further if need be.
It seems that by "a causal explanation" you mean the basis or grounding of causality: why and how it is that one thing can cause another in the first place, and in the most general sense.
In that case, I don't really have an answer to your original question:
(2024-12-12, 08:50 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: Can two substances have their own causal explanations, or does there have to ultimately be one explanation for all causation? If the two substances interact, then are there three causal explanations?
I'm agnostic on this. I haven't pursued or even considered the question of the basis of causality with the same interest that you have. I'll just make this observation: that it seems that minds as substances have a causal power that matter as a substance doesn't seem to have, that being the power to originate rather than merely participate causally.
Beyond that, who knows what the answer to your questions are? I tend towards thinking that there's ultimately one explanation though.
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