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  2. Mind–body dualism - Wikipedia

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    In the philosophy of mind, mindbody dualism denotes either the view that mental phenomena are non-physical, [1] or that the mind and body are distinct and separable. [2] Thus, it encompasses a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, as well as between subject and object, and is contrasted with other positions, such as physicalism and enactivism, in the mindbody problem.

  3. Interactionism (philosophy of mind) - Wikipedia

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    Interactionism was propounded by the French rationalist philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650), and continues to be associated with him. Descartes posited that the body, being physical matter, was characterized by spatial extension but not by thought and feeling, while the mind, being a separate substance, had no spatial extension but could think and feel. [2]

  4. Mind–body dualism

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    In the philosophy of mind, mindbody dualism denotes either the view that mental phenomena are non-physical, [1] or that the mind and body are distinct and separable. [2] Thus, it encompasses a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, as well as between subject and object, and is contrasted with other positions, such as physicalism and enactivism, in the mindbody problem.

  5. Mind–body problem - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of mindbody dualism by René Descartes.Inputs are passed by the sensory organs to the pineal gland, and from there to the immaterial spirit.. The mindbody problem is a philosophical problem concerning the relationship between thought and consciousness in the human mind and body.

  6. Epiphenomenalism - Wikipedia

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    Epiphenomenalism is a position in the philosophy of mind on the mindbody problem.It holds that subjective mental events are completely dependent for their existence on corresponding physical and biochemical events within the human body, but do not themselves influence physical events.

  7. Philosophy of mind - Wikipedia

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    This is a philosophy of mind that regards the degrees of freedom between mental and physical well-being as not synonymous thus implying an experiential dualism between body and mind. An example of these disparate degrees of freedom is given by Allan Wallace who notes that it is "experientially apparent that one may be physically uncomfortable ...

  8. Psychophysical parallelism - Wikipedia

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    Psychophysical parallelism is a third possible alternative regarding the relation between mind and body, between interaction (e.g., Mindbody dualism) and one-way body-to-mind causality (e.g., materialism, epiphenomenalism).

  9. Neutral monism - Wikipedia

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    The mindbody problem is the problem of explaining how mind relates to matter. The hard problem is a related philosophical problem targeted at physicalist theories of mind specifically: the problem arises because it is not obvious how a purely physical universe could give rise to conscious experience. This is because physical explanations are ...