PHIL 24320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cerebral Cortex, Materialism
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Mind-body dualists" argument: the 1st premise of the argument for mind-body dualism: We (human persons) could survive complete dematerialization (in an immaterial state) (not that we will but that we could). So i could exist in a wholly immaterial state. Nothing that is wholly material could exist in a wholly immaterial state. But we have good (broady scientific) reasons to think we"re wholly/purely material. So we have good reason to turn the argument on its head and say we"re wholly/purely material. So the first premise of the mind-body dualists" argument is false: possibility expanding response: If there could be wholly immaterial persons and minds, then there could also be partly material and partly immaterial persons and minds and initially wholly material but in the end wholly immaterial persons or minds. Sydney shoemaker"s pov: suppose you can have wholly immaterial persons in mind like archangels. Start at angel that has a thousand parts, all immaterial.
