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  2. List of philosophical problems - Wikipedia

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    The mindbody problem is the problem of determining the relationship between the human body and the human mind. Philosophical positions on this question are generally predicated on either a reduction of one to the other, or a belief in the discrete coexistence of both.

  3. Philosophy of mind - Wikipedia

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    The philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world. The mindbody problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are addressed, such as the hard problem of consciousness and the nature of particular mental states.

  4. Bodymind - Wikipedia

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    Bodymind is an approach to understand the relationship between the human body and mind where they are seen as a single integrated unit. It attempts to address the mindbody problem and resists the Western traditions of mindbody dualism .

  5. 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]

  6. Mind - Wikipedia

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    The mindbody problem is the difficulty of providing a general explanation of the relationship between mind and body, for example, of the link between thoughts and brain processes. Despite their different characteristics, mind and body interact with each other, like when a bodily change causes mental discomfort or when a limb moves because of ...

  7. Category:Mind–body problem - Wikipedia

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    The mindbody problem is the central issue in the philosophy of mind. Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. A.

  8. Psychophysical parallelism - Wikipedia

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    Psychophysical parallelism is the ideology that the mind and the body hold no interaction between them, but that they are synchronized. On the other hand, epiphenomenalism proclaims that mental occurrences can be triggered by physical ones, but that mental occurrences do not affect anything, they simply spark and fade, so they do not cause any ...

  9. Leibniz's gap - Wikipedia

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    In the philosophy of mind, Leibniz's gap is the problem that thoughts cannot be observed or perceived solely by examining brain properties, events, and processes. Here the word "gap" is a metaphor of a subquestion regarding the mindbody problem that allegedly must be answered in order to reach a more profound understanding of qualia, consciousness and emergence.