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The concepts are related through the academic work of Duoyi Fei, who authored a book exploring how the mind and body shape each other as described in [1].
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Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 16 facts
claimThe mind-body problem is the philosophical inquiry into the relationship between the mind and the body, or between mental properties and physical properties.
claimIf one rejects analytical accounts of mental predicates, such as behaviorism or functionalism, the conceivability argument suggests that the dependence of the mind on the body does not follow the standard models of dependence found in other scientific cases.
claimCommon sense suggests that the mind and body interact because everyday experience indicates that thoughts and feelings are sometimes caused by bodily events and sometimes cause bodily responses.
claimBefore Saul Kripke's work in 1972/1980, philosophers generally believed in contingent identity, which made the transition from the possibility of a mind existing without a body to the conclusion that the mind is a different entity from the body seem invalid.
claimThe conceivability argument establishes a prima facie case that the mind possesses only a causal ontological dependence on the body.
claimInteractionism is the view that the mind and body, or mental events and physical events, causally influence each other.
claimRené Descartes believed in a natural form of interaction between the immaterial mind and the material body.
claimDualism defines the mind in contrast to the body, though the specific aspects of the mind that receive focus have shifted throughout history.
claimThe zombie argument establishes only property dualism, and a property dualist might consider disembodied existence inconceivable if they believe the identity of a mind through time depends on its relation to a body.
claimGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz proposed that God set up the universe so that the mind and body always behave as if they were interacting, without requiring specific intervention on each occasion.
claimRené Descartes identified the pineal gland as the site of interaction between the mind and the body, primarily because it is not duplicated on both sides of the brain and thus serves as a candidate for a unique, unifying function.
claimNicolas Malebranche argued that natural interaction between mind and body was impossible, requiring God to intervene specifically on each occasion where interaction was needed.
claimThe problem of embodiment asks what it means for a mind to be housed in a body and what it means for a body to belong to a particular subject.
perspectiveRené Descartes' conception of the relationship between the mind and the body differed significantly from the Aristotelian tradition.
claimProponents of the dualist argument claim that one can know a priori through introspection that the mind is not more-than-causally dependent on a radically different nature, such as a brain or body.
perspectiveGeorge Berkeley suggested that once genuine interaction between mind and body is ruled out, it is best to allow that God creates the physical world directly within the mental realm as a construct of experience.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 6 facts
claimIf mind and body interact, they constitute a single system, meaning energy exchange between them would not necessarily violate conservation laws.
claimScholastic scholars like Thomas Aquinas propagated Aristotle’s view, which suggested an ontological monism rather than a dualistic model of the mind and body.
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.
claimCartesian dualism has been identified as the most central problem of modern science and the modern/colonial worldview due to its ontological dualism, which contributes to the 'Great Divide' between mind and body, subject and object, human and non-human, culture and nature, humanities and natural sciences, and Us and Them.
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.
claimThe humanities are trapped by the Cartesian subject, which leads them to repeatedly discover the illusiveness of reality while failing to bridge the gap between subject and object, mind and body, and individual and society.
The Compatibility of Christianity with Panpsychism, Part 1 theologycommons.gcu.edu 2 facts
claimSubstance dualism posits that the mind is non-physical while the body is, at least in part, physical.
claimThe 'Bodily Soul' view posits that the body and mind are two different modes of the same unified being that possesses both mental and physical properties, making the distinction between them less stark than in Cartesian dualism.
Mind and Consciousness - St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology saet.ac.uk 2 facts
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.
quotePaul along with most Jews and other early Christians habitually thought of man as a duality of two parts, corporeal and incorporeal, meant to function in unity but distinct and capable of separation [...] There is no single formula by which Paul expresses his dualist view of human nature, but terms such as ‘inner man’, ‘spirit’, ‘mind’, and ‘heart’ all refer to the incorporeal aspect or part, and terms such as ‘outer man’, ‘flesh’, ‘body’, ‘members’, and so forth all refer to the corporeal aspect or part.
Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
referenceDuoyi Fei authored 'Beyond the Brain: How the Mind and the Body Shape Each Other,' published by Springer Nature Singapore in 2023 (ISBN 978-981-19-9558-3).
Not Minds, but Signs: Reframing LLMs through Semiotics - arXiv arxiv.org 1 fact
claimBaruch Spinoza argued that the mind and the body are the same entity viewed from different perspectives, comparing the relationship to a melody and its corresponding sheet music.
[PDF] Consciousness and Mind - PhilArchive philarchive.org 1 fact
claimA fundamental philosophical inquiry regarding the mind involves determining what the mind is and how the mind relates to the body.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimRené Descartes's dualism of mind and body was motivated by the desire to remove the mind from the scientific picture of the world.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimThe 'sense of ownership' helps explain why it is difficult to conceive of experiencing a thought located in another person's mind or pain located in another person's body.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimRené Descartes proposed dualism of mind and body as a way to remove the mind from the scientific picture of the world.