(January 30, 2016 at 4:40 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:What is false about this:(January 30, 2016 at 4:57 am)Pizza Wrote: Dualists want to reduces personal identity down to immaterial thinking thing but I don't buy it. If you ask me to define what it means to be me, I'd end up "pointing" to more than thoughts, but my face, my voice, the way I walk, my actions, my quirks, and my humanity. If you cut away all the physical, with Descartes and friends arguments for dualism, what is left? Thinking thing... Where's the beef?
You are confusing the mental concept of self, and the mechanism that facilitates the concept.
Quote: If you ask me to define what it means to be me, I'd end up "pointing" to more than thoughts, but my face, my voice, the way I walk, my actions, my quirks, and my humanity.
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