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Is personal identity really just mind?

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Is personal identity really just mind?
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RE: Is personal identity really just mind?
February 1, 2016 at 4:36 pm
(February 1, 2016 at 4:10 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:
(January 30, 2016 at 9:49 pm)bennyboy Wrote: The "bridge" problem is this: if their are 2 unique substances, then how do they interact?
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Let's say I have a brain and a mind, and they are unique.  How does the brain let the mind know what's happening, and how does the mind influence the brain?  There needs to be a mediating mechanism:  substance "brainmind."  But what would a bridge between 2 so totally different substances consist of?  The soul?  Nah. . . in what way would that have roots in either the mind OR the body ?

Nope.  The dualist position requires God, He Who Make Possible What Is Impossible.  Now things are easy:

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I have recently explained why this is a straw man to you. Why do you persist? Was something unclear about hylomorphic union?

What's that hymenmorphic union bit about? Is it somehow related to that ectoplasm, or "slime" which covered Bill Murray like so much jism?

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Is personal identity really just mind?

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Is personal identity really just mind? - by Pizza - January 30, 2016 at 4:57 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by Pizza - January 30, 2016 at 5:21 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by Cato - January 30, 2016 at 11:16 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by Grandizer - January 30, 2016 at 12:57 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by Grandizer - January 31, 2016 at 1:06 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by Pizza - January 30, 2016 at 4:35 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by brewer - January 30, 2016 at 9:54 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by Whateverist - January 30, 2016 at 8:00 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by Catholic_Lady - January 30, 2016 at 10:24 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by MysticKnight - January 30, 2016 at 8:38 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by Catholic_Lady - January 30, 2016 at 10:23 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by Anomalocaris - January 30, 2016 at 4:40 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by Pizza - January 30, 2016 at 4:45 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by Pizza - January 30, 2016 at 4:42 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by ignoramus - January 30, 2016 at 6:22 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by MysticKnight - January 30, 2016 at 6:40 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by ignoramus - January 30, 2016 at 7:05 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by bennyboy - January 30, 2016 at 9:49 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by God of Mr. Hanky - February 1, 2016 at 4:36 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by bennyboy - February 1, 2016 at 8:34 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by ignoramus - January 30, 2016 at 10:05 pm
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by ignoramus - January 31, 2016 at 1:30 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by Grandizer - January 31, 2016 at 1:38 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by scoobysnack - January 31, 2016 at 1:39 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by CrystalKey - January 31, 2016 at 2:01 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by ignoramus - January 31, 2016 at 2:55 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by CrystalKey - February 14, 2016 at 4:25 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by ignoramus - February 14, 2016 at 4:40 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by CrystalKey - February 14, 2016 at 5:50 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by ignoramus - January 31, 2016 at 2:57 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by Grandizer - January 31, 2016 at 3:40 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by ignoramus - January 31, 2016 at 6:48 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by robvalue - February 14, 2016 at 4:27 am
RE: Is personal identity really just mind? - by ignoramus - February 14, 2016 at 6:34 am

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