Microphysical state of affairs embedding

But there is one sort of property realizer that mental properties have to have if their instances are realized in microphysical states of affairs. For any type of microphysical state of affairs that can be the maximally determinate realizer of an instance of a particular macrophysical property, there is a property something has just in case its career includes a microphysical state of affairs of that type that realizes an instance of that property. Let s speak of these as properties of macroscopic entities that embed maximally determinate microphysical states of affairs that are property instance realizers - call them microphysical-state-of-affairs-embedding properties, or MSE-properties. If a property is such that an instance of it can be realized in a maximally determinate microphysical state of affairs of a certain type, then the corresponding MSE-property will be among its possible property realizers. Assuming physicalism, mental properties will have such properties as realizers. But so also will all other properties of macroscopic things - or, rather, all other properties that are not themselves MSE-properties. Properties such as shape, mass, electrical charge, are ones whose different instances are realized in microphysical states of affairs of different sorts, and so ones that are realized in a variety of MSE-properties. 

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