RE: Monist vs. Dualist Experiment?
October 29, 2013 at 12:13 pm
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2013 at 12:18 pm by MindForgedManacle.)
I think Apophenia hit the nail on the head earlier when she(?) noted how dualism doesn't actually solve the problems it instantiates. In other words, how does this second substance do what it is claimed "physical matter" cannot. I'd further like to know what non-physical matter or stuff is that substance dualists speak of, because it seems like a made up thing. It divorces a large part (if not the crucial part) of what we mean when we say something exists: spatial occupance.
As for my own position: I'm not too sure. My lack of familiarity wity both neuroscience and philosophy of mind doesn't do me any favors. I suppose I would be inclined towards a position that consciousness isn't some extra thing over brain activity, rather than the result of brain activity as a whole instead of one particular thing or area of the brain.
As for my own position: I'm not too sure. My lack of familiarity wity both neuroscience and philosophy of mind doesn't do me any favors. I suppose I would be inclined towards a position that consciousness isn't some extra thing over brain activity, rather than the result of brain activity as a whole instead of one particular thing or area of the brain.
