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Which is the best explanation of the mind body relation, dualism or physicalism?
The mainstream view, physicalism, ie. materialistic monism, is the philosophical position that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties, and that the only existing ...
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Which is the best explanation of the mind body relation, dualism or physicalism?
The title question frames the content of the OP’s question into the
dichotomy of dualism versus physicalism.
That’s not a complete disjunction. Because physicalism is only one
version of monism, such ...
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The ultimate absurdity: if consciousness is an illusion, how can anything we know be real?
You say :
The ultimate absurdity: if consciousness is an illusion, how can
anything we know be real?
I see two problems here :
Materialism is still the prevailing ideology in Western thinking, ...
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The ultimate absurdity: if consciousness is an illusion, how can anything we know be real?
It is indeed the ultimate absurdity! The proposal is internally contradictory. The longest blind alley in modern philosophy - and bullshit! In contrast, a simpler proposal based on ancient philosophy. ...
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