Dualism
- Something about us is over and above the purely material, physical stuff
- Argument for dualism
- Can thought, feelings, experience, reason, etc. be fully explained in purely physical terms?
Substance Dualism
- View that minds and brains are different kinds of things
- Allows for a mind to exist after the brain dies off
- They are independently existing things
- Split into two categories:
- Popular Dualism
- The mind is like a ghost that resides within the body
- Cartesian Dualism
- The mind is a non-physical substance that doesn't exist in space
Property Dualism
- View that there's only one kind of thing but two kinds of properties
- The mind cannot exist after the brain dies off
- They are not independently existing things
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