For some time now, Jaegwon Kim has argued that irreducible mental properties face the threat of causal inefficacy. The primary
weapon he deploys to sustain this charge is the supervenience/exclusion argument. This argument, in a nutshell, states that
any mental property that irreducibly supervenes on a physical property is excluded from causal efficacy because the underlying
physical property takes care of all of the causal work itself. Originally intended for mental properties alone, it did not
take long for his critics to suggest the argument generalizes across all of the special science properties as well. Kim responds
in two different ways to the generalization problem. The first response, which I call the higher-level solution, is ably dismissed
by numerous critics. The second response, which I call the identity solution, has not faced comparable scrutiny. In this paper
I argue that the identity solution faces numerous problems of its own.