Substance dualism
Substance dualism
Real World
When neuroscientist Christof Koch studies consciousness in the lab, he can map every neuron firing in a patient's brain yet still cannot locate where the subjective feeling of seeing red 'lives' — illustrating the dualist intuition that mind and matter are fundamentally separate.
Exam Focus
When asked to 'explain' substance dualism, always distinguish mental from physical substance using the terms 'res cogitans' and 'res extensa' for top marks.
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