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Mind Body Problem

Summary

  • Are you a mind with a body or a body with a mind. Are the body and mind two separate things?
  • How can a non physical mind have any interaction with a physical body?
  • If the mind is immaterial, why does your mind move only your body and not others.
  • wiki.concepts.list.Materialisim reject that there is any distinction between mind and body
  • The wiki.concepts.list.Rubber Hand Illusion and similar VR experiments show us that our senses can easily mislead us in our judgement of self.
  • They also suggest that our bodies and external sensations are inseparable from our subjective consciousness
  • If we close our eyes in a silent room having a body is not something we can imagine away
  • How can we be sure we are communicating our subjective experiences accurately?
  • We perceive our identity as separate from our bodies.
  • We feel misrepresented by our bodies.
  • The only way we can interact with others is through our bodies therefore people make assumptions about us based on our bodies.
  • What can we infer about a person by the way they look and the body the drive?
  • wiki.concepts.list.Extended Mind Thesis

Research