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Single Idea 2534

[catalogued under 15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / e. Questions about mind]

Full Idea

When bodies are conceived without mind, Zombies are the topic; when mind is conceived without bodies, Ghosts are the topic.

Gist of Idea

Mindless bodies are zombies, bodiless minds are ghosts

Source

Scott Sturgeon (Matters of Mind [2000], Intro)

Book Reference

Sturgeon,Scott: 'Matters of Mind' [Routledge 2000], p.3


A Reaction

Personally I am not too impressed by either possibility. I doubt whether either of them are even logically possible. Can you have a magnet without its magnetism? Can you have magnetism with no magnet?