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The concepts of mind and soul are closely linked through philosophical and theological discourse, where they are often treated as synonymous or distinct aspects of the human subject, as seen in substance dualism [1], [2] and Cartesian theory [3]. They are frequently grouped together in religious contexts [4], [5] and debated in the context of consciousness and the self [6], [7].
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The Compatibility of Christianity with Panpsychism, Part 1 theologycommons.gcu.edu 3 facts
referenceCartesian dualism defines the human person as a soul in a physical shell, where the person is identical to the soul, and the soul is identical to the mind.
quoteIn the Gospels, Christ identifies the greatest commandment as: “you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength,” quoting Deuteronomy 6:5.
claimThe author of 'The Compatibility of Christianity with Panpsychism, Part 1' notes that Christ's distinction between heart, soul, and mind in the greatest commandment raises the question of whether this is a metaphysical distinction or a mere logical distinction.
Mind and Consciousness - St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology saet.ac.uk 2 facts
claimIt is widely held that persons, subjects, minds, or souls are conscious, but the state of consciousness itself is not conscious, similar to how persons engage in activities like thinking or running, but the activities themselves are not thinking or running.
claimSubstance dualism, which recognizes the distinct reality of the soul or mind and the body, has been developed by Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Augustine of Hippo, the Florentine Academy, John Calvin, the Cambridge Platonists, René Descartes, John Locke, Thomas Reid, Richard Swinburne, and Alvin Plantinga.
Dualism, Physicalism, and Philosophy of Mind - Capturing Christianity capturingchristianity.com 1 fact
quoteAlexander Rosenberg states: “if the mind is the brain (and scientism can’t allow that it is anything else)… we have to stop taking our selves seriously… We have to realize that there is no self, soul or enduring agent, no subject of the first-person pronoun, tracking its interior life while it also tracks much of what is going on around us. This self cannot be the whole body, or its brain, and there is no part of either that qualifies for being the self by way of numerical-identity over time. There seems to be only one way we make sense of the person whose identity endures over time and over bodily change. This way is by positing a concrete but non-spatial entity with a point of view somewhere behind the eyes and between the ears in the middle of our heads. Since physics has excluded the existence of anything concrete but nonspatial, and since physics fixes all the facts, we have to give up this last illusion consciousness foists on us.”
Six Theories of Consciousness - Mind Matters mindmatters.ai 1 fact
claimRené Descartes referred to the mind as the soul when discussing the mind-brain problem.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimAnthony Kenny (1989) argues that Aristotle's theory of the mind as a form is similar to Gilbert Ryle's (1949) account, as both equate the soul to the dispositions possessed by a living body.