Sensations can have no physical effects, because physical laws are enough causes for perceptions {problem of phenomenal causation} {phenomenal causation problem}. Sensations cause no force or energy. Mental things can affect only mental things. However, phenomenal qualities must be causal, because people can know they have had experience. However, if mental life has no causation, consciousness need not be causal [Seager, 1999].
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