(September 1, 2013 at 12:18 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: A couple advantages of dualism are as follows:
Dualism does not conflate neuroscience with materialism. One is a science, the other is a philosophy.
Physical phenomena, in themselves, have no inherent meaning. Dualism provides a place, absent in materialism, for irreducible qualities like qualia and intentionality.
Unlike materialism, dualism affirms that the subjective contents of mental states have explanatory relevance while avoiding both epiphenomenalism and over-determination. This allows natural selection to reward rationality.
However, there is absolutely no scientific evidence of dualism, and all of the research in neuroscience points to mind being entirely brain-based.
Dualism is an outmoded idea; the only reason for it to persist is to support woo-woo ideas.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.