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hey im having the same problem but im not sure what to write for description iv got the basic outline of it, the ways in which it differs from substance dualism but thats it so iv written only half a page on it, tho i have got iv got a few critisims

It makes the mental causally impotent as they are caused by physical phenomenta but do not have any influence. ie the direction of causation is one way, from the physical to the mental. ALthought surely our desires, intenttions have a change in out pysical states and the world.

supervience leads to epiphenomenalism - mental cannot very independtly from the phsyical as it is controlled by it. This would mean that the physical is repsonsibe for the existence of mental states.

how can physical brain events cause a totally different phenomena such as that of consciousness