
Discussing Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem
Mind Matters
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What Is Your Take on Substance Dualism?
i think there is some truth to substance dualism, although i don't myself entirely like the cartesian approach. I think that a augustine was right, that we can think of the the soul or the mind as beinga present in space. It's just we have to think in terms of different ways things can be present. After all, when god is we speak of him as being omnipresent. He can be present wherever physical objects are. And augustine's view is that the soul is present in the body wherever sensation is. Ah, so it isn't somehow this bizarre entity that descarte seemed to a describe, that had no real location. But i think as
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