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Good thing you have solved metaphysics then, care to share your work?

• tsimionescu 5y ago
  While there are massive amounts of work left to actually describe the mechanisms and understand the specifics, I think computation presents an extremely convincing account of how the mind can arise from the body. Metaphysics of course has many other aspects beyond mind/body dualism, and many of those are well outside the realm of what can be scientifically probed. But the origins of the mind in the body and brain are not beyond scientific exploration, and we have been making progress towards them - only baby steps so far, but already too much to keep believing in anything like dualism. In fact, mind/body dualism has not been taken seriously in any scientific circles for at least a hundred years, but it persists in certain philosophical circles, with silly thought experiments such as 'p-zombies'.
  • nathias 5y ago
    You do understand that the problem isn't in the origin, but type? It doesn't matter if the mind is generated by the body, the issue is if it is reducible to it. This pertains more to ontology as in what is reality and what is is than any particularities of the empirical mechanisms of cognition and neuroscience, substance dualism has nothing to do with science and people who understand the problem know that.