03 Dec 12, 10:14PM
It feels like there is a discontinuity between mind and body. Even though we're getting better at understanding how brain changes affect mental aspects, it feels to me like the mind is somehow transcendental to our brains.
There are several key positions when trying to determine the relation between mind and body. Which main group do you fall under?
Dualists consider the mind and body as radically different things neither of which explaining the other fully.
Physicalists hold that there are only physical things and elements of the mind derive just from these.
Idealists hold that the world is constructed by the mind.
There are several key positions when trying to determine the relation between mind and body. Which main group do you fall under?
Dualists consider the mind and body as radically different things neither of which explaining the other fully.
Physicalists hold that there are only physical things and elements of the mind derive just from these.
Idealists hold that the world is constructed by the mind.