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Gotcha... because according to physicalism, consciousness is supervenient upon brain activity. Logically necessitated by brain activity. So if you could have a brain with no mind, then that would...

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Do you have any idea how they come to that conclusion? What's the backup, or motivation?

I was thinking free will might be the reason for the reservation? That is, a property dualist...

I would understand 'separate', but why 'over and above'? I mean, what's the meaning of the phrase as a whole, and its constituent parts. Are we talking about something like plato's forms? Where the...

I wanted to throw in a quick definition of "supervenience" as I'm understanding the term.

Fact 1: I'm writing in an internet forum.
Fact 2: I'm using a computer.

Fact 2 is supervenient upon...

Tut, I wanted to note one more thing. I really liked your original mention of property dualism, which launched our discussion. What I thought I was seeing initially when I went and research it was an...

I just looked back at the original question and realized there's a heavy thread of nihilism running through the original post, and I think that's worth addressing. There's more to being human than a...

Tut, in a reply that's appearing for me on the second page at this point, you said "For Nagel there is nothing like what it is to be a bat". So that was the source of the confusion.

A couple years...

Substance dualists believe we have immaterial minds, yeah? So if each person has a soul, capable of exiting their body and entering another body, your soul could leave your human body and enter a...

From what I'm reading, it seems rational that a substance dualist would argue that an individual can know what it's like to be a bat. That's because each person has a soul, capable of exiting their...

I actually liked your previous answer even better. I thought it was a lot more informative.

I had no idea there were two different types of dualism, so I was confused when I saw you contrasting...

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I got totally the opposite view from Nagel's essay when I read it initially. I must have misunderstood. I'd like to understand better.

If Nagel is a substance dualist, wouldn't he argue...