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Originally Posted by Larry To me, idealism seems to be the most likely option because:
It beautifully solves the mind-body problem by encapsulating both body and mind in the mind (as in a dream). |
It solves it as long as you think "poof! it works" is a solution. There isn't even a glimpse of a theory of how the mental might operate. And I daresay there never will be.
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Materialism however has, in the end, to posit some kind of dualism in order to account for consciousness, as I see it (or denying it completely, which is even more absurd).
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What materialism denies is that consciousness is a separate thing, therefore leading to dualism.
You people all talk about consciousness in a dualistic manner, as if it is surely a separate thing that materialism has to find. If consciousness is a collective term for a set of brain processes, then there is no separate thing.
~~ Paul