In this video, I explain what dualism is, the difference between property and substance dualism, the difference between different kinds of substance dualisms (including Cartesian dualism), and motivations for and against being a dualist.
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Motivations for and against
- A1: the mind is the center of personhood, which is not material
- S1: material body constantly changes, person remains the same
- S2: personhood isn't quantifiable like matter
- A2: thinking seems prima facie to be immaterial
- R1: the brain has a causal effect on thinking
- O1: damaged equipment
- R1: the brain has a causal effect on thinking
- A3: sense of transcendence
- A4: religious
- O1: makes minds sound like ghosts in a shell
- O2: doesn’t neuroscience explain everything going on in thinking?
- O3: mind sounds like soul, and soul is religion
- O4: scientism
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