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| Aug 12, 2025 at 14:16 | answer | added | Hudjefa | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 12, 2025 at 13:27 | answer | added | Anixx | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 23, 2025 at 12:46 | comment | added | keshlam | @tkruse: It would be a great help if we had a question that relative beginners could use as a starting point to figure out what forms of dualism are favored. Even if the answer just directs to and summarizes the SEP article. I tried to write that question, but it's unclear I was successful... | |
| Jun 22, 2025 at 14:30 | comment | added | keshlam | Best answer I've found so far is the SEP's article on dualism, which lists at least some of the flavors thereof. | |
| Jun 21, 2025 at 15:32 | answer | added | user67687 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 21, 2025 at 5:48 | comment | added | tkruse | There are many forms about dualism, and in a philosophy forum it can be expected that questions are specific about it. | |
| Jun 21, 2025 at 2:10 | answer | added | Dcleve | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 21, 2025 at 1:41 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 20, 2025 at 23:00 | comment | added | keshlam | (Well, brain and body. Emotions definitely get other parts of the body involved, sometimes as cause, sometimes as response.) | |
| Jun 20, 2025 at 22:36 | comment | added | keshlam | @DennisKozevnikoff For physicalists, mental states are the state of and biochemical/bioenergetic behavior of the brain, and are thus physical (or physically based) in exactly the same way that a computer's memory and processing are physical(ly based). Different in degree, not different in kind. | |
| Jun 20, 2025 at 22:07 | comment | added | Dennis Kozevnikoff | mental states like love, hate, hope etc. are not physical and they don't seem to raise any issues for anyone | |
| Jun 20, 2025 at 21:14 | answer | added | mmorgado | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 20, 2025 at 19:03 | comment | added | SystemTheory | How do physicalists define what is physical? I have read that the Buddha describes the body as resistance in the mind. Then the mind generates the conscious distinction of what is physical versus non-physical. Electrical engineers build transistor circuits or digital devices called not-gates. The transistorized not-gate takes an input voltage corresponding to a logic level and produces an output voltage corresponding to a distinct logic level. Human consciousness operates on distinctions, and recognizes the physical brain, yet does not know how the physical brain generates such distinctions! | |
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| Jun 20, 2025 at 18:36 | comment | added | acb1516 | @keshlam combatants must choose weapons according with their (pro)positions | |
| Jun 20, 2025 at 18:31 | answer | added | g s | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 20, 2025 at 18:29 | answer | added | Kristian Berry | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 20, 2025 at 18:21 | comment | added | keshlam | This can only be settled by a dual at dawn. Challenged gets to pick the weapons... | |
| Jun 20, 2025 at 17:56 | answer | added | David Gudeman | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 20, 2025 at 17:49 | comment | added | keshlam | Strikes me as a legitimate question, but I'm a physicalist. The impression I've gotten is that there have been multiple opinions on this and no clear consensus. Somewhat related, my philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/121440/… | |
| Jun 20, 2025 at 17:41 | history | asked | Syed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |