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Seeking Help on Cartesian Dualism and the Mind-Body Relationship
I'm currently studying philosophy and I'm struggling with the concept of Cartesian dualism, particularly in relation to other theories about the mind-body relationship. I'm wondering if anyone here ...
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Why is mind interacting with matter any more problematic than matter interacting with matter?
So there's this supposedly an 'interaction' problem for substance dualism, that isn't there for physicalism or idealism. I've never understood this.
So as Hume pointed out, we see event a followed by ...
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If dualism provides an escape from determinism, how does it work
There are confusing number of types of dualism, i am not sure which one to restrict the question to.
Reductionist physicalism has a dichotomy between determinism and random. Dualists like to claim ...
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Which arguments support Dualism as the best view of the human person?
If you had to choose between Dualism, Physicalism, and Hylomorphism, which one do you think is more likely to be accurate and why?
I think Dualism is the most plausible, but that might be because I am ...
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Relationship between duality and absolute reality
"A problem is only a problem when there's a solution. We exist in a world of duality: positive vs negative, happiness vs sorrow, light vs darkness. The contrastive relationship helps us ...
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Descartes and natural inclinations and aversions
Descartes mentions “secondary properties” (qualitative properties) which guide human behavior.
E. g. we can not only recognize that food became spoiled by its odor but we’re immediately repelled by it....
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How does hylomorphic dualism (Thomism) deal with free will?
As I understand, according to hylomorphism the soul and the body are one in the same. The soul "informs" the matter, but does not interact as it would in interactionism. But how does this ...
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Implications of Cartesian Psychophysical Dualism for free-will and determinism
For Descartes, reality consists of two fundamental substances: the mental, and the physical.
The mental substance is distinct from the physical substance in that it is not bound by the deterministic, ...
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How does a dualist explain changing their mind?
If I'm a monist about the mind and physicalism and/or causal determinism, when I change my mind about some topic, I can posit something causally linked to my mind as changing my opinion. Perhaps I ...
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Experiment to prove that dualism is true
To prove experimentally that dualism is true, the dualist would need to show that:
Let be a person in physical state A at some instant t1 with conscious experience X.
Now, in another instant t2, the ...
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Does the "sin that dwelleth in me" corresponds to kundalini?
In the Letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul writes about "sin" as some entity that dwells in the human body.
Now, I do believe that this entity corresponds to kundalini.
sin entered into ...
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Is the mind a substance in dual aspect monism?
I'm having a difficulty of the concept of the mind in dual aspect monism. Is the mind a substance in this philosophy of mind?
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Has the concept of bodily integrity been discussed in the context of the human-nature relationship?
Human rights and many constitutions protect humans' bodily integrity. The concept is regularly linked to personal autonomy, freedom of movement and choice (Wikipedia).
The idea that the origin and ...
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Can Thomas Nagel be considered an epiphenomenalist?
Regarding the mind-body-problem, Thomas Nagel argues against both materialism and ontological dualism, presenting a view which revolves around subjective phenomena (individualism).
Could these ...
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Does sensory information exist, and do philosophers have a name for it?
Are there really sensory sensations such as sight, hearing, tactile sensations, smell, taste, and umami? In other words, are those sensations or sense-data real, and if they are not real physically, ...
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Why is it that philosophers use terms that aren't literally true in their literature?
In lectures and talks that I have attended/watched, I've noticed a propensity to use the term "move" when describing the primary driving force behind an argument. In context, it might sound ...
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Was the notion of mind-body dualism invented, or at least popularized, by Rene Descartes?
This dualism seems so compelling (from a layman’s perspective) that it seems difficult to imagine that Descartes invented or even popularized it. For instance, people kept using words like “soul” to ...
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Philosophy of non duality or oneness it's equivalent in west
In India there is a philosophy of non duality / oneness / enlightenment...
And people practice it...
Is there something similar in western philosophy ?
Also there is this idea that the individual the ...
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Why is mind/body duality so widely accepted?
It seems strange that Cartesian mind/body duality is so widely accepted, given that it leads to scepticism around the possibility of human knowledge.
Why is it so widely accepted, and how do its ...
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Are mental objects timeless?
Let's suspend for a moment the How? of the body mind problem and suppose an ontological paradigm where there are two classes of objects: mental and physical. Also that physical objects are spatially ...
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Do panpsychism and its variants (such as Russellian monism) face an interaction problem?
Many philosophers of the mind—such as David Chalmers, Galen Strawson and Philip Goff—have become sympathetic to variants of panpsychism when it comes to explaining consciousness. Yet, on their own ...
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What is a dualists response to Sean Carroll’s QFT objection to souls?
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2011/05/23/physics-and-the-immortality-of-the-soul/
He argues that given the universe operates on QFT, we would need to create new physics to account for ...
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Is dualism unlikely because the mind is inextricable in its activity from matter?
I've been thinking about dualism lately, but one thing that deals a pretty strong blow to this view in my mind is that it implies that the mind can exist apart from physical reality (an immaterial ...
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How is the causality of mind consistent with the law of conservation of energy?
How is the causality of mind consistent with the law of conservation of energy?
Intuitively, the mind can influence the physical world (with causality), and it is hard to see how such causality does ...
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What is the argument posed by Katherine Hayles in "The Condition of Virtuality" as to the relation between matter and virtuality and why?
I am learning in class of the influence new media have on old-aged dichotomies such as matter-mind, subject-object and their like. Our new-media teacher asked us to read the paper "The condition ...
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Consciousness and a simulated brain
There are already several projects that are trying to simulate the human brain (see, for example, Algorithm for large-scale brain simulations)
Let's suppose that it is possible to simulate with an ...
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The experience of simultaneously holding very different interpretations of reality
Disclaimer: I am describing here something that's been my personal perception/interpretation/mode of being for many many years. I may not (probably don't) know the correct terminology, or whether this ...
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How does Descartes argue that mind and body are different substances if mind can exist without a body?
How does Descartes argue that mind and body are different substances if mind can exist without a body? I think he does this in meditation II
Descartes’ argument so far is that minds can exist ...
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Does modern physics lend support to or reject dualism?
I have seen a few papers/articles which apparently show that dualism is supported by modern quantum mechanics:
A Quantum-Mechanical Argument for Mind–Body Dualism
QUANTUM MECHANICS AND DUALISM
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Does property dualism imply survival in the teletransportation paradox?
Property dualism posits the existence of only the physical substance, but the existence of both mental and physical properties.
The teletransportation paradox presents a situation in which a person ...
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Can any philosophy of mind be empirically verified?
(This is sort of a follow-up from this question)
Can dualism, materialism, or anything in between be empirically verified? There seems to be some disagreement here. This page presents both views ...
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Can theism be reconciled with the apparent state of dualism?
The SEP states that "dualism has come upon hard times lately, and is widely regarded as being discredited."
It seems to me that most theists (I'm thinking mostly of Christians here) accept dualism to ...
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Is there an argument against physicalism on the grounds that the view would make what we call a subjective experience astronomically unlikely?
If we assume that physcialism is true and all that there is, then we can safely assume that what we think of as subjective experience and consciousness, is driven by the atoms in our brain and the ...
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Debate on dualism, physicalism. etc in philosophy of mind
(I do not have a philosophy background but I do read philosophy myself.)
I have read some review papers of emergence theory, where philosophy of mind is a major battle ground. I find an absence of a ...
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If the mind is spatial does that mean it is material and cannot contain qualia?
The reason that people like mind body dualism is that material things cannot contain qualia and therefore there must be another entity that explains our consciousness.
However, if we assume that the ...
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Can substance dualism (Cartesian) account for split consciousness?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-superhuman-mind/201211/split-brains
A long time ago neuroscientists discovered that when a persons brain is split their consciousness splits as well. Some ...
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According to Hasker's emergent dualism, why does the mind have to be spatial?
https://www.newdualism.org/papers/F.Dilley/Dilley-faithphil_2003.pdf
I was reading Dilley's critique on the emergent dualism view, and it seems to me that the biggest reason to reject Hasker's view ...
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wouldn't Psychophysical Parallelism require an explanation as to why the mind and body correlate?
One thing I don't understand about Psychophysical Parallelism, is that it states that the mind and body are perfectly coordinated, yet there is no causal relationship between them. If this is true, ...
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How can substance dualism (Cartesian) explain how the mind is affected from brain damage?
One of the biggest arguments against substance dualism is the fact that when the brain is damaged, the mind is altered. If the brain and mind are two different substances, the mind should not be ...
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For substance dualism, what are some solutions regarding how the physical can affect the mental without invoking Divine intervention?
In epiphenomenalist substance dualism, what can be a mechanism for how the physical affects the mental without invoking divine intervention?
Epiphenomenalist dualism is where the physical can affect ...
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How can substance dualism survive the arguments from neuroscience?
On the Wikipedia page for Mind-body dualism, one of the arguments against dualism is neuroscience.
In some contexts, the decisions that a person makes can be detected up to 10 seconds in advance by ...
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Does emergent dualism solve the problem of brain damage without resorting to interactionist dualism?
Emergent dualism is a solution to the brain damage problem for substance dualism. It states that the mind is a substance that arises from certain configurations of matter (such as the brain). And when ...
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Is there any way to have substance dualism without invoking God?
Can one solve these objections to substance dualism without invoking divine intervention?
1.Causal interaction
2.Brain damage affects mind
3.Why do only living things with brains have consciousness?...
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According to Descartes, the mind and body communicate through a tiny part of the brain (the pineal gland) where the 'common sense' is located
True or False?
I'm unsure about this question because it seems like he only refers to the mind and the brain in this context, but not the body as a whole.
Here's the passage:
"The mind isn't ...
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Should we think twice about dualism?
With the rise of Materialism and Physicalism a dualistic ontology has fallen out of favor. The successes of Science makes makes us comfortable to deny any entity beyond the "Observable Universe". ...
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Cartesian dualist and dualist
I was taught that Cartesian dualists were those who believe strongly that the mind and the body are entirely two separate entities while a dualist believes the same but also believes that the mind and ...
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What does it mean to say what happens in your experience is inside your mind in a way in which what happens in your brain is not?
"If what happens in your experience is inside your mind in a way in
which what happens in your brain is not, it looks as though your
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Is Reality an intersection of Incompatible Ontologies?
Empiricists do not ask questions about the ontological status of mathematical or logical structures. Idealists don't explain how Ideas are developed, or how technological advancement in general takes ...
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Are there convincing arguments for dualism?
There are several reasons for thinking that the mental and the physical are essentially separate and fundamentally different. Should we be convinced by any of them?
I'm required to give three ...
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Imagine that you look at yourself as a cat, what do you think of your own behavior?
I recently thought very much about the life of mammals who live in our cities, such as cats, and dogs.
To see if I will find a philosophy in this, because, as we know, the Nature Is Our Best Teacher!....
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