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'Constitutional Code I', 'A Discourse on Method' and 'What is it like to be a bat?'
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 1. Dualism
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I can deny my body and the world, but not my own existence [Descartes]
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Reason is universal in its responses, but a physical machine is constrained by its organs [Descartes]
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism
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The soul must unite with the body to have appetites and sensations [Descartes]
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 7. Zombies
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Can we describe our experiences to zombies? [Nagel]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 6. Mysterianism
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Nagel's title creates an impenetrable mystery, by ignoring a bat's ways that may not be "like" anything [Dennett on Nagel]
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We can't be objective about experience [Nagel]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / d. Explanatory gap
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Physicalism should explain how subjective experience is possible, but not 'what it is like' [Kirk,R on Nagel]
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