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The relationship between consciousness and the body is central to philosophical debates regarding physicalism, dualism, and interactionism, as evidenced by arguments concerning causal closure [1], the interaction problem [2], and the conceptual distinction between mind and body {fact:1, fact:9}. Furthermore, various perspectives explore how the body serves as hardware or an intermediate entity for consciousness {fact:2, fact:5, fact:7, fact:11}, or how they are dynamically coupled [3].
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Theories and Methods of Consciousness biomedres.us 2 facts
claimCognitive psychology accounts for both the objective formation of consciousness and individual subjective experiences by metaphorically viewing the brain as software and the body as hardware working together to produce subjective behavior.
referenceScholarship on consciousness focuses either on the software producing conscious behavior or on the body as hardware producing subjective phenomenal experiences via sociocultural forces, according to Strauss et al.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 2 facts
claimInteractionism refers to approaches that attribute a causal role to consciousness, implying that mind and body influence each other, whereas epiphenomenalism refers to approaches that deny any influence of the mind on the body.
claimVon Stillfried distinguishes between 'strong' epiphenomenalism, which denies any interaction between mind and body, and 'weak' epiphenomenalism, which only denies the causal role of consciousness.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org 2 facts
claimThe argument from physiology posits that because all physical events discovered in the brain and body have physical explanations, all physical events, including those associated with consciousness, must have physical explanations.
referenceThe argument from physical causal closure, supported by Kim (1989), Papineau (2001), Melnyk (2003), and Montero and Papineau (2016), focuses on how consciousness affects the brain, the body, and the physical world in general.
Do all non-physicalist theories of consciousness face the interaction ... philosophy.stackexchange.com 1 fact
claimModern scientific understanding of causation, which includes non-contact, probabilistic, and distance-based interactions, does not resolve the interaction problem for dualism but rather complicates it by requiring an explanation of how non-physical consciousness interacts with the body.
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org 1 fact
referenceMindful awareness is applied across four domains of experience: the body, feelings or affective tone, current mental states, and the matrix of interrelationships among all phenomena arising in consciousness.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
referenceA common argument against physicalism, cited by Chalmers (2009) and Goff (2017), is that one can conceive of physical facts of the body and brain obtaining in the absence of facts about consciousness, implying physical facts cannot wholly account for the facts about consciousness.