>>14756742>A cause cannot impart what it does not haveI think this assertion is woefully grounded in the heavily abstracted reality we inhabit on a mundane, day-to-day basis. I think it can be done away with quite comfortably when entering the realm of physics, metaphysics, and philosophy. An electron, upon being thrust into motion, imparts a magnetic field around itself that was not there before. Can we say definitively that an electron "has" a magnetic field at all times? Does the concept of "having" something hold up at all levels of physical and philosophical reasoning? I'm not saying matter "causes" consciousness, but rather, consciousness arises at the same time as some particular complex motion of matter (such as the electrons flowing intricately through a brain), and how it happens is quite outside our current understanding of physics.
