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If Dualism is true, then by what means does the mind interact with the body?

If Dualism isn't true, then how do we explain unseeable mental processes such as intention?

>> No.7090334

your mom dualed my bag and muh dick. yeah.

>> No.7090342

>>7090327
read Spinoza, the body and mind are just two different types of the same substance

>> No.7090347

>>7090342

Spinoza is a kook who thinks that god can be defined as a substance holding properties of both x and not x.

>> No.7090348

>>7090327
pineal gland motherfacker

if dualism isn't true and materialism is then they aren't unseeable at all.

>>7090342
that would mean spinoza isn't a dualist if you're implying that he is

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>>7090347

But Spinoza doesn't say that substance is X and not-X in the same way. You as an embodied person can be, say, both hot and not hot at the same time, if you have one hand in a bucket of hot water and one hand in a bucket of cold water - you are X and not-X, though not in the same way, since one part of you is X while a separate part of you is not-X. So with Spinoza's substance, it can be X insofar as an individual mode is X, and not-X insofar as a different mode is not-X; it can also be X insofar as one of its infinite attributes is X, and not-X insofar as a different one of its infinite attributes is not-X.

No?

>> No.7090564

>>7090526
Berkley pls leave

>> No.7090568

>>7090327
>If Dualism isn't true, then how do we explain unseeable mental processes such as intention?
a heuristic

>> No.7090569

>>7090327
>If Dualism is true, then by what means does the mind interact with the body?
cartesian dualism!=dualism