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  2. 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]

  3. 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.

  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. 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 ...

  7. Psychophysical parallelism - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the body is injured, God is aware of the injury and makes the mind, or the person (subject of experience), feel pain. [6] Likewise, if a person wants to move their hand, i.e. to grasp an object with their fingers, that want is made aware to God and then God makes the person's hand move.

  8. Floating man - Wikipedia

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    The Floating Man argument is a dualist argument, supporting the idea that the mental realm is separate from the physical world (such as the physical body). In the argument of the floating man, Ibn Sina affirms the existence of a mental self, even without any physical perception.

  9. Cartesian Self - Wikipedia

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    The self when seen as a compound is when it can be interpreted as being a whole human being - body and mind - with the body being an extension of the mind. [1] It is distinct from the Cartesian other , anything other than the Cartesian self, yet the human-being version, union of body and mind, of the self is capable of interaction with the ...