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Single Idea 2411
[filed under theme 17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism
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Full Idea
There is an objection to dualism that it cannot explain how the physical and the nonphysical interact, but the answer is simple on a natural supervenience framework - they interact by virtue of psychophysical laws (…which are as eternal as physics).
Gist of Idea
Supervenience makes interaction laws possible
Source
David J.Chalmers (The Conscious Mind [1996], 2.4.6)
Book Ref
Chalmers,David J.: 'The Conscious Mind' [OUP 1997], p.170
A Reaction
There are different sorts of laws. What Chalmers is hoping for would be a mere regularity, like the connection of cancer to smoking, but the objection is that the discovery of causal mechanisms, to give truly explanatory laws, is simply impossible.
The
18 ideas
with the same theme
[mind and matter mutually affect one another]:
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24039
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All the emotions seem to involve the body, simultaneously with the feeling
[Aristotle]
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24056
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The soul (or parts of it) is not separable from the body
[Aristotle]
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5695
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Only bodies can touch one another
[Lucretius]
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6683
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The contact of spirit and body is utterly amazing, and incomprehensible
[Augustine]
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3400
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Things must have parts to intermingle
[Gassendi]
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3616
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The soul must unite with the body to have appetites and sensations
[Descartes]
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6153
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Interaction between mental and physical seems to violate the principle of conservation of energy
[Rowlands on Descartes]
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3654
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The pineal gland links soul to body, and unites the two symmetrical sides of the body
[Descartes, by PG]
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6553
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Descartes discussed the interaction problem, and compared it with gravity
[Descartes, by Lycan]
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3469
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Mind and brain don't interact if they are the same
[Searle]
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3409
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Mental substance causation makes physics incomplete
[Kim]
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2446
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Cartesians consider interaction to be a miracle
[Fodor]
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2445
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Semantics v syntax is the interaction problem all over again
[Fodor]
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9293
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Body-spirit interaction ought to result in losses and increases of energy in the material world
[Teichmann]
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3911
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The very concept of a substance denies the possibility of mutual interaction and dependence
[Scruton]
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2409
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Maybe dualist interaction is possible at the quantum level?
[Chalmers]
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2411
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Supervenience makes interaction laws possible
[Chalmers]
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4590
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If causation is just regularities in events, the interaction of mind and body is not a special problem
[Heil]
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