Mind-Body Dualism | Philosophy Glossary

What is Dualism, and what does its say about the mind-body relationship? You'll know in just over 5 minutes of this Philosophy Glossary explainer!

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00:00 - Intro
00:29 - What is dualism?
00:56 - Mind-body dualism
01:41 - Substance dualism
02:40 - Understanding substances
03:29 - Essences of mind and body
04:28 - No possibility of reduction
04:53 - Property dualism
06:11 - Dualism in contemporary philosophy
06:32 - Wrap up

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[fuckTrump-vj]

So essentially, our body is Chef Linguini and our mind is Remi the rat.

[StephenPaulKing]

Consider the duality in Stone's Representation theorem, it is generalized in Category theory to a Duality between Logical Algebras and Topological spaces. If the physical world can be completely represented by topological spaces (and their morphisms) - and it is - and Minds are Logical systems - implemented by self-referential logical systems, then Descartes' duality can be made to work nicely IF we replace the ontology of Substances with an Ontology of Process. This idea was pointed out by Vaughan Pratt in his seminal paper: Rational Mechanics and Natural Mathematics.

[crackersnucker]

I have thought of dualism, I didn't know René Descartes was the influential people who kinda invented the concept of dualism. Good knowledge!

[lynndickerson]

You have helped me with this class so much!!

[HalTuberman]

Great video. I've always thought it was a bit unfair that property dualism is lumped in with substance dualism, where to me, it more resembles monism or a materialistic theory than it does dualism as Descartes idea. I suppose there is the "distinctness" thing going on with it, but even materialistic/monistic theories acknowledge metal experiences enough to try to explain why they exist.

I mean, I see a lot of agreement between a substance dualism (let's say simple epiphenomenalism) and behaviorism, functionalism, or biological naturalism. Whereas substance dualism and property dualism seem fundamentally irreconcilable. (Didn't mean to make such a long post. I guess I've been stewing on this.)

[JD-pice]

Thanks for another fantastic video Mark. Random thought / question; do you feel a philosopher has a (ethical, political or otherwise) responsibility to persuade others? If so, how does a philosopher make sense of the limits of that in a practical sense? I always struggle with identifying when to share (what I see) as the truth vs. withholding the truth from an ethical standpoint. Is there any sort of generalised framework you personally look to when faced with this dilemma? It seems to be that many famous Philosophers (eg. Socrates et al) were perhaps overly brazen in sharing their views. Perhaps to the detriment of others. It seems to me; a major problem of our time?

[drchaffee]

Whatever the neural correlates of numbers and colors might be, it doesn't seem like they could themselves be numbers or colors.