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Comment author: Salemicus 15 September 2014 01:08:05PM 64 points [-]

Dualism is a coherent theory of mind and the only tenable one in light of our current scientific knowledge.

Comment author: pragmatist 15 September 2014 01:13:06PM 3 points [-]

I upvoted because I disagree (strongly) with the second conjunct, but I do agree that certain varieties of dualism are coherent, and even attractive, theories of mind.

Comment author: DanielLC 16 September 2014 12:00:33AM 5 points [-]

Do you mean that, without strong evidence that we don't have, we should assume dualism, or that we have strong evidence for dualism?

If it's the second one, can you give me an example of such a piece of evidence?

Comment author: Salemicus 16 September 2014 11:22:07AM 1 point [-]

The second position.

An example of the evidence is the two-way causal connection between your inner subjective experiences and the external universe.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 16 September 2014 01:42:39PM 8 points [-]

How is that better explained by dualism?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 17 September 2014 03:44:54PM 4 points [-]

Indeed. Two way interaction uis as well or better explained by physicalism.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 17 September 2014 03:43:44PM 3 points [-]

Which dualism?

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