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In Mr. Jones's case, the forbidden truth is not some mysterious mental property of oxytocin, the hormone produced by nursing mothers.
Physicalists think that mental properties "supervene" on the physical, in the sense that every change or difference in a mental property depends upon some change or difference in a physical property.
Such investigations, now generally referred to as "evolutionary psychology," are still philosophically controversial, in part because it is notoriously difficult to specify the sense in which a mental property is innate and to determine which properties are innate and which are not.
Although the effect counterfactually depends on the mental property, this is only because the mental property depends on a physical property doing the real work.
A weak global supervenience characterization of physicalism would allow much more mental property swapping.
One possibility is that it is a behavioral property that, like the mental property, is itself "broad".
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