Questions tagged [dualism]
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Can anyone provide an argument against astralphysical dualism that is not reductionist materialist, purely physicalist/supportive of physicalism?
In one of my recent literary works, I have chosen to posit an advance of the concept of dualism, via coining the term astralphysical dualism. This concept requires understandings of three root terms:
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Is epiphenomenalism really a form of property dualism?
Specifically referring here to supervenience, such that X supervenes on Y if change in X entails logically a change in Y.
Unless I'm mistaken, property dualism tries to argue that mental states are ...
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Is it audacious and false to encapsulate Descartes Philosophy in this one simple sentence? [closed]
Namely: "I, therefore God, therefore body and mind". I want to see if I understand the bigger picture of his Philosophy.
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Does mind-body dualism entail supernaturalism?
The concept of mind-body dualism emphasizes a profound division between the mental and physical dimensions of human existence, positing the body as physical and the mind as non-physical. With this ...
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About the validity of the Zombie concept
Related Posts that I read:
why zombies' existence imply physicalism is false
"Could all of us be zombies" assumption
Context
Just to make sure we talk about the same type of Zombie, here ...
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Which is the best explanation of the mind body relation, dualism or physicalism? [closed]
As far a my knowledge of philosophy there is two schools of thought dualism that the human mind is separate from the physical body, and the other school of thought is physicalism that the mind is ...
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Self-duality (in category theory) and advaita (non-duality in metaphysics)
In category theory, there are self-dual objects, where A ≅ A∗ (A is isomorphic to its dual), with the strict, but possibly non-coherent, case being when A equals A∗ (see Selinger[??]). In some ...
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What did Eugene Wigner mean by his non-QM argument for the influence of consciousness?
In 1961, Eugene Wigner introduced the so-called "Wigner's friend" thought experiment as a plausible demonstration of the effect of the consciousness on the physical world, or more ...
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Philosophy presupposes the individuality of the Whole?
I thought of a flaw in the very essence of philosophy
Philosophy presuppose that the individualisation of the Whole, which is created by language, corresponds with the Whole as it is, and that it is ...
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What is the standard name for this mild form of dualism?
Dualism is traditionally thought to be the belief that matter and mind are separate things. However, I have this belief that while matter causes mind to emerge, nonetheless they are separate entities. ...
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What responses are there to this criticism of Chalmers' p-zombies?
In this blog post, Elizier Yudkowsky criticizes Chalmers' idea of "p-zombies" - that is, a physically identical version of the universe in which all the same physical actions and events ...
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Why does naturalistic dualism imply panpsychism?
From this article:
First, [naturalistic dualism] seems to imply panpsychism, the view that everything in the universe has consciousness. Once you accept the existence of nonphysical features of the ...
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Does gender identity require a dualist account of consciousness?
For the sake of argument, let us say that gender identity exists and is analytically and ontologically distinct from sex.
Let us also say that:
Gender identity is accessible through introspection, ...
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Is there a middle ground between substance and property dualism?
I am trying to work out if there is a middle ground theory between substance and property dualism?
Substance dualism:
physical and mental domains are fundamentally different and separate substances ...
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I have seven steps to conclude a dualist reality. Which of these steps are considered controversial/wrong?
Step 1: We start by believing in the bare minimum : our own subjective experience exists. This is the only thing we know to exist. The existence of other things can only be inferred. And to deny your ...
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