What I here call power, sense 1, I called in that book causal power. (religion-online.org)
But I shall not explore that difference just now, but simply say that by my act of speaking I exercise causal power of a complex sort on the world about me.2 (religion-online.org)
By the same token, the firing of the neuron or the coursing of impulses through a neural complex does not support the agent's thought and speech by expending physical energy on them, although of course it does expend physical energy on other neurons and neuronal complexes and hence does exercise causal power on them. (religion-online.org)