[MD] Quick one: causation

[Case]

> > [Chris]
> > Allright, answer me this, just quickly - why can't the explanation of 
> > a performed action by an individual be explained only in terms of 
> > physical causation?
> 
> [mel]
> If your parachute doesn't open
> it's pretty much down to gravity...
> 
> [Case]
> But what about what's still up to you?
> Do you scream or shake your fist
> Are your eyes shut? 
> Or do you squint in wonder
> Through the rushing air?
> What thoughts flit through your mind,
> As Mother Earth pulls you to her breast?

mel:
I read the question as trying to find
some action, physically, that could be
reduced as closely as possible to the
physical.  All I could come up with
was the kinetic, so I guess I'd have to
add that the  'you' in the example is 
comatose.  

Otherwise, there are always higher 
level involvements, as far as I can figure.
(Of course the specific delimitations
and assumptions of the question
are opaque.)

[Case]
I merely meant to highlight 
That the rush of wind,
The rising breast of Gaia 
The kinesthetic sense of falling
Do somehow cause 
The scream, 
The fist, 
The squint,
Our choices are 
Constrained by circumstance.
We act with the tools we have inherited.
We act based on what we have experienced before.
We act based on what is present in the here and now.
Those are the three 'causes' 
Of the "Behavior of Organisms".