Pleasure and Joy

[Chas]

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.