Substance Dualism *Mirror*

Since ancient times, many attempts have been made to account for the relationship between mind and body. This video examines the inherent flaws in the philosophy of substance dualism, along with some of the fallacious reasoning often put forward to support it.

A closer look at the split brain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGwsAdS9Dc

A look at pre-conscious decision-making, as posted by EvolvedAtheist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg3hDzkmPww

Originally posted by QualiaSoup

Category:

Education

Tags:

• substance
• dualism
• consciousness
• mind
• neutral
• monism
• physicalism
• naturalism
• split
• brain
• cell
• replacement
• injury
• EvolvedAtheist

[MimKoRn]

Are there more videos, which QS created and then took them down? Does anyone know why he took it down? I'm pretty much interested...

[FlyingFree333]

@MimKoRn

No idea.

[xorthan]

I've always wondered something about "You are literally not the person you were 7 years ago." I've also heard that a girl is born with every egg cell she'll ever have - are egg cells an exception to the first statement? Are there any other exceptions?

[FlyingFree333]

@xorthan

Pacemaker cells on the heart aren't replaced, the ones you start with are the only ones you ever get. But the cells may remain the same that doesn't meant he atoms in the cells are the same.

[Savyn333]

good work. great video

[TheHeidelbergKid]

@MimKoRn QS took them down because he's remaking them with new software he only recently obtained. He mentions it on his "about me" page. They'll be back up as soon as he gets around to making them.

[TheHeidelbergKid]

@xorthan Egg cells, muscle cells, neurons, and some others remain the same. But other than those few exceptions, every cell in the body has a maximum lifespan of ~7 years.

[marjorienjanvier1]

Read Quantum Philosophy:meanings Answers and Promises

[marjorienjanvier1]

good points

[bigu236]

@Gnomefro Language also restricts us here. If we symbolize everything through words, than there is no way to actually describe the "non-physical." I don't think that necessarily means we can throw out dualism. There is no evidence to support that dualism doesn't exist...nobody has come up with proven evidence of the soul, mind, or consciousness in a physical way, we just literally can't explain anything in non-phsyical terms.

[Gnomefro]

@bigu236 I suppose it was easy to be led in the direction you're thinking though, because of the mention of a contradiction. I don't think that's accurate. There's no contradiction inherent in other things having similar properties as physical things. It's mostly that the concept is useless, but also that there is necessarily interaction with matter, and that which interacts with matter is usually called matter. Such interaction would also be observable, but isn't observed.

[bigu236]

@Gnomefro There is no explanatory mechanism for something that is "non-physical"...how can you describe something with no description?