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'Thinking About Mathematics', 'The Conscious Mind' and 'Meditations'
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 1. Dualism
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The mind is a non-extended thing which thinks [Descartes]
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Mind is not extended, unlike the body [Descartes]
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Descartes is a substance AND property dualist [Descartes, by Kim]
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The mind is utterly indivisible [Descartes]
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism
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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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Maybe dualist interaction is possible at the quantum level? [Chalmers]
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Supervenience makes interaction laws possible [Chalmers]
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 3. Panpsychism
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It is odd if experience is a very recent development [Chalmers]
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 7. Zombies
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If I can have a zombie twin, my own behaviour doesn't need consciousness [Chalmers]
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17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 8. Dualism of Mind Critique
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The 'thinking thing' may be the physical basis of the mind [Hobbes on Descartes]
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Knowing different aspects of brain/mind doesn't make them different [Rorty on Descartes]
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Descartes gives no clear criterion for individuating mental substances [Cottingham on Descartes]
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Does Descartes have a clear conception of how mind unites with body? [Spinoza on Descartes]
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Even Descartes may concede that mental supervenes on neuroanatomical [Lycan on Descartes]
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Superman's strength is indubitable, Clark Kent's is doubtful, so they are not the same? [Maslin on Descartes]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 3. Psycho-Functionalism
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Does consciousness arise from fine-grained non-reductive functional organisation? [Chalmers]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 7. Chinese Room
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Maybe the whole Chinese Room understands Chinese, though the person doesn't [Chalmers]
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17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 8. Functionalism critique
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The Chinese Mind doesn't seem conscious, but then nor do brains from outside [Chalmers]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 3. Property Dualism
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H2O causes liquidity, but no one is a dualist about that [Chalmers]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 4. Emergentism
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Perhaps consciousness is physically based, but not logically required by that base [Chalmers]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 5. Supervenience of mind
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Zombies imply natural but not logical supervenience [Chalmers]
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17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 6. Mysterianism
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Phenomenal consciousness is fundamental, with no possible nonphenomenal explanation [Chalmers, by Kriegel/Williford]
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Nothing external shows whether a mouse is conscious [Chalmers]
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / b. Multiple realisability
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Temperature (etc.) is agreed to be reducible, but it is multiply realisable [Chalmers]
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