Episode 27: You, Your Self, and Your Brain (With Eddy Nahmias)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Importance of Mind Stuff
Paul Bloom says that ordinary people are dualists, he means in a very pre-theoretical way. But explaining the world in terms of mental concepts or even categories doesn't mean you think those concepts aren't also physical. Even infants understand that things that have minds behave differently than things that don't. It just means they have something that has the powers that we ascribe to mental states like beliefs.
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