Supervenience
Supervenience
Real World
If scientists created a perfect physical duplicate of you — every atom in identical position — supervenience implies that duplicate would have exactly your beliefs, feelings, and memories, because mental properties cannot differ where physical properties do not.
Exam Focus
State the supervenience thesis precisely ('no mental difference without physical difference') before evaluating; vague paraphrases lose AO1 marks.
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