The Epiphenomenality of Natural Mechanical Systems and the Salvation of Everyday Objects

Is it plausible to hold, as I do, that natural mechanical systems have no efficacious causal powers of their own, and only inherit any and all causal powers that they do have, in a metaphysically-&-ontologically derivative, secondary, shadowy, skeletal, and therefore epiphenomenal way, from the inherently more concrete and richer organic systems in which they’re necessarily embedded and from which they’re derived by natural or nomological strong supervenience—i.e., the explanatory inversion thesis, as applied specifically to natural mechanical systems? In this chapter, I do my level best to answer that hard question affirmatively.