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> A dualist might see the “soul” as the software that the physical brain executes. I don't think so (although there are multiple definitions of "dualist"). In
by esperent 6y ago
> A dualist might see the “soul” as the software that the physical brain executes.
I don't think so (although there are multiple definitions of "dualist").
In the software/hardware analogy, the software still exists, physically. It's described directly in electrical impulses going though the hardware. For dualists, the soul is strictly non-physical.
- weinzierl 6y agoThe hardware is the plastic, the metal and the silicon, software is ultimately the fleeting electrical signals. That's how I see it too and a pretty common view, I think. What I read from the parent comment is different though. It's more akin to electricity belongs to the physical world, software is the non-physical.