Property Dualism and Reductive Materialism
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- Created on: 13-02-17 13:40
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- Property dualism and Reductive Materialism
- Property Dualism
- Only one kind of material, physical substance
- Mind and body have different properties but different substance
- Two distinct types of properties
- Mental properties
- Physical matter also has mental properties
- Opinions
- Emotions
- Memories
- Physical matter also has mental properties
- Physical Properties
- Physical matter of the brain has physical properties
- size
- Mass
- Shape
- Physical matter also has mental properties
- Opinions
- Emotions
- Memories
- Physical matter of the brain has physical properties
- Mental properties
- Emergent Materialsm
- As physical things become more complex, new properties emerge
- Which cant be reduced simply to the material
- The mind in some sense has its own existence but is not completely separate substance from the physical
- Which cant be reduced simply to the material
- As physical things become more complex, new properties emerge
- Only one kind of material, physical substance
- Reductive materialism
- Mind is not distinct from the physical brain but is IDENTICAL with it
- Mental states can be classified into types
- Memory
- Pain
- Happiness
- Desire
- Mental events and physical events in the brain are identical
- BORING
- Chemical reactions do not cause the mental events but ARE the mental events
- Nothing more to the human person than the physical material
- No life after death, when the body dies the consciousness ends
- Property Dualism
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