Conservation could better promote not just the quantity of species but the quality of animal life

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Doubts about the possibility of causal interaction between non-physical minds and physical brains go back to the birth of interactionist dualism. Jaegwon Kim (2001;2005) has recently tried to clarify the concern. 1 According to Kim, interactionists face a challenge in accounting for the distinct causal capacities of different minds. Common sense holds that particular minds control particular brains: my mind can cause my body to go into the kitchen and fetch a cup of tea, but it cannot do the same to yours. Interactionists must make room for these differences in causal powers by explaining how is it that minds might be causally paired with only the bodies they influence. Kim argues that interactionists cannot succeed. This has come to be known as the 'pairing problem'.