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.
Yep, I think we do. I love that example of a funeral lol.
Funnily and ironically enough (and not really related to the topic at hand), Dennett has a term for these sorts of things: deepities. They hold a dual meaning, one that is true and trivial, and another that is false but very consequential. His example is "love is just a four-letter word". This is true in the sense that the word "love" is a four-letter word, which gets your foot in the door, but that's not exactly groundbreaking, and the implied message (that love is a meaningless concept, just a word people use with no connection to reality) is a strong thing to say, but patently false.
I've found this to be a useful concept over the years.