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You presuppose a classic ontology. Clearly when I think of a bone, it is not a physical bone. It's an abstraction. Are abstractions concrete-physical? Does truth have a physical cause? A bit of matter at a simple location? The process of relations brings about the mental state, not the matter.
>[…] apart from any essential reference of the relations of [a] bit of matter to other regions of space […] there is no element whatever which possesses this character of simple location. [… Instead,] I hold that by a process of constructive abstraction we can arrive at abstractions which are the simply located bits of material, and at other abstractions which are the minds included in the scientific scheme. Accordingly, the real error is an example of what I have termed: The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness. (Whitehead)
All actual entities have a measure of free will, however small it may be. a degree of novelty.
https://www.informationphilosopher.com/freedom/two-stage_models.html