PHIL 346 Lecture 23: PHIL-346,University of Arizona,Readings(p23)
30 Aug 2018
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His mind are ordinarily harnessed together, but after the death of the body his mind may continue to exist and function. Bodies are in space, but minds are not. A person therefore lives through two collateral histories, one consisting of what happens in and to his body, the other consisting of what happens in and to his mind. Introspection is said to be immune from doubt own would lack any possibility of observational corroboration. 2, the absurdity of the official doctrine. Refers to the official doctrine as the dogma of the ghost in the machine. It is a category-mistake and thus a philosopher"s myth. A family of radical category-mistakes is the source of the double-life theory. The human body is a complex organised unit, so the human mind must be another complex organised unit.
