mind-body problem

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mind-body problem

(Philosophy) the traditional philosophical problem concerning the nature of mind, body, and the relationship between them. See dualism², interactionism, parallelism³, monism¹, idealism³, materialism², identity theory, behaviourism²

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mind-body problem

The philosophical question of how mind and body are related, and whether mind is a non-physical substance.

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I am sure that proponents of emergentism and the theory of complex systems (as applied to the mind-body problem) are inspired by the noble aim of linking causes and intentions in a broader scientific picture.

LAS TEORIAS DE LA COMPLEJIDAD NO RESUELVEN EL PROBLEMA MENTE-CEREBRO

(2) These beliefs are almost as pervasive as the sense that the mind is "wiser" than the body, a notion rooted in the classic "mind-body problem" of philosophy.

Singing with your whole brain: the mind-body problem

Their reasoning results from the familiar Western mind-body problem stemming from Descartes.

Cultivating Consciousness; An East-West Journey

Today's scientists have attacked this mind-body problem with new theories and experiments designed to tease apart the components of consciousness within the brain (SN: 2/11/12, p.

Electrode turns consciousness on and off: woman lost awareness, though appeared awake, when part of her brain was stimulated

Of course, so are more established presses like Random House (Portnoy's Complaint), Penguin (The Mind-Body Problem), Macmillan (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay), and FSG (The Collected Stories: Grace Paley) to name a handful.

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Chapter topics include personal identity and immortality; the mind-body problem; free will, determinism, and responsibility; the existence of God; knowledge, skepticism, and belief; and ethics.

Knowledge, nature, and norms; an introduction to philosophy, 2d ed

This argument involves Eagleton in interesting discussions of the mind-body problem, which he considers a non-issue once you grant that humans are social beings involved with their bodies, and of Marx's spirituality, which, he says, involves "art, friendship, fun, compassion, laughter, sexual love, rebellion, creativity, sensuous delight, righteous anger, and abundance of life," not theology (140).

Terry Eagleton. Why Marx Was Right

He frames his task in terms of "the mind-body problem," or, the discipline of describing the relationship between the psychological and neurological aspects of human self-awareness.

A LEADING ATHEIST PHILOSOPHER REJECTS EVOLUTIONARY NATURALISM

There are, of course, well known objections to identity solutions to the mind-body problem, as well as arguments against the claim that the identity theory solves the problem of mental causation.

Peter Ulric Tse: The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation

eBookNation will also offer a selection of current writers, such as The Art of Controversy, by Victor Navasky; Dirty Wars, by Jeremy Scahill; The Mind-Body Problem: Poems, by Katha Pollitt; and more.

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(author); THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM EXPLAINED; Future Psychiatry Press (Nonfiction: Psychology) 34.95 ISBN: 9781615991709