(October 2, 2015 at 1:31 am)Nestor Wrote: Hey Benny... suppose that science is limited to the physical, and that mind involves something beyond what science is currently equipped to wrap its hands around... I think this is an entirely reasonable suggestion... could you not come to the proposition of property dualism without embracing idealism? If so, why not simply stop there, without appealing to the more radical claim, i.e. mind precedes matter?
If the two substances interact, then it seems to me either they are two faces of the same substance, or the duality is an illusion: because you'd then need a "bridge," which being neither substance I would consider a 3rd substance. This third substance would also need a bridge, etc. meaning that any pluralistic system is likely to be either infinite in nature or ambiguous: mind/matter.
