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For Schopenhauer:

Biological determination is a kind of phenomenal being. Phenomenal being is only representation for an intellect. So the very existence, the empirical reality, of biological determination - and not merely the abstract knowledge that such biological determination has occured - is conditioned by intellect. No?

(Though a related issue that I didn't mention yet is how Schopenhauer's system could allow for a subjective intellect to be a "condition" of its objects, when this seems to imply a relation of condition/conditioned between the subject and its object; yet this seems to be just another way of saying that there is a ground/consequence relation between subject and object, yet such a relation between them is one that Schopenhauer explicitly rejects.)