Materialism is dead. There are simply too many questions left unanswered after years of studying the brain. Now, people are scrambling for a new way to understand the mind-body relationship. Cartesian dualism has become a whipping boy in philosophy, but it has advantages over the alternatives. Dr. Joshua Farris discusses Cartesianism and philosophy with Dr. Michael Egnor.

Podcast description: Materialism is dead. There are simply too many questions left unanswered after years of studying the brain. Now, people are scrambling for a new way to understand the mind-body relationship. Cartesian dualism has become a whipping boy in philosophy, but it has advantages over the alternatives. Dr. Joshua Farris discusses Cartesianism and philosophy with Dr. Michael Egnor.

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Materialism is dead. There are simply too many questions left unanswered after years of studying the brain. Now, people are scrambling for a new way to understand the mind-body relationship

    I realize hopping into /c/philosophy is bad for my health, but this premise is ridiculous. "We don't fully understand the most complicated and paradoxical thing we could possibly study at this particular point in time, therefore there must be aether, <opposing side> btfo." Like, yes, the piece of meat more complex than the largest supercomputer on the planet and the result of billions of years of evolution into something that is, as far as we are currently aware, a completely unique existence is kinda hard to abstract down to a mathematical model, that doesn't automatically mean it can't be.