Daily Archives: September 6, 2009

Bertand Russell on the Mind and Body Problem

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John Searle Wants Us to Reject Both Materialism and Dualism with Regard to the Mind

John Searle splits the difference by saying that consciousness is, in relation to matter, “ontologically irreducible but causally reducible.” Here’s parts 1 and 2 of a longer talk. If you don’t want to hear the biographical introduction to Searle, you … Continue reading

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Is Dualism Still in Play? Australian Philosopher David Chalmers on the Relation of Mind to Matter

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Can You Be a Scientifically Educated and Buddha Aware Person, and Still Believe in the Self and in Free Will?

I know this goes against the prevailing winds of both science and Buddhism, but what would it be like to hold a naive view of the self and free will? In other words, what if you were to think that, … Continue reading

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