Assertion: mind | /r/HasProperty | physical
Facets:
value: according to the dualist
type: OTHER
value: presumably
type: DEGREE
value: simply
type: MANNER
value: with neural substrate
type: OTHER
value: in other words
type: OTHER
value: purely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Because the mind is formless, or non-physical, by nature, it is not obstructed by physical objects.
text: The brain is a physical object that can be seen with the eyes and that can be photographed or operated on in surgery.
text: If one is to avoid ontological dualism, then the mind that has a perspective must be part of the physical reality to which it applies its perspective.
text: The brain is the physical organ most associated with mind and consciousness, but the mind is not confined to the brain.
text: While brain is considered to be a physical thing, mind is considered to be mental.
text: In other words the brain is the physical muscle that the mind utilizes and works through to carry out physical functions.
text: While computers are physical devices with electronic substrate that perform computations on inputs to give outputs, so brains are physical devices with neural substrate that perform computations on inputs which produce behaviors.
text: Other philosophers, however, adopt a non-physicalist position which challenges the notion that the mind is a purely physical construct.
text: Traditionally, scientists have tried to define the mind as the product of brain activity: The brain is the physical substance, and the mind is the conscious product of those firing neurons, according to the classic argument.
text: In the most simplistic terms, mind-brain identity theory purports that the mind is simply a part of the physical body.
text: Because the mind is formless, or non-physical, by nature, it is not obstructed by physical objects.
text: Additionally, if the mind is neither physical nor identical to its inessential characteristics (1980, p. 53), it is impossible to distinguish one mind from another.
text: Presumably, then, the minds that have these states are also non-physical.
text: Since, according to the dualist, the mind is non-physical, there is no need to suppose it bound by the physical laws that govern the body.
text: If this means that minds, being non-physical, cannot physically act on bodies, the claim is true but trivial.
text: If this mind is physical and irreducible, it presupposes mind to see it as such.
text: The brain is a physical object that can be seen with the eyes and that can be photographed or operated on in surgery.
text: If one is to avoid an ontological dualism, the mind that has this perspective must be part of the physical reality on which it has its perspective.