Do you believe in Dualism(Philosophy of Mind)?

Question

State which type of Dualism:
Interactionism, Epiphenomalism, Parallelism or Occasionalism, and state whether you believe in it.

and why? (i.e. Please back up your answer with reasons)

Answer 1

I do not know what kind of 'believe in' you are referring, but I believe they are all defined using metaphor and rationalist concepts. None, as far as I am concerned are to be used to support a faith, but as assistance in communication and personal cognitive development; we all need to go through stages of transformation of learning and rejecting. I believe in the actuality of description and identification. While necessary for cognitive development, self reflection slows consciousness; the Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.


"Outline of Hegel's Phenomenology
INTRODUCTION
1. Our ordinary Knowing has before itself only the object which it knows, but does not at first make an object of itself, i.e., of the Knowing. But the whole which is extant in the act of knowing is not the object alone, but also the Ego that knows, and the relation of the Ego and the object to each other, i.e. Consciousness. "

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ol/ol_phen.htm


http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ol/ol_logic.htm

Answer 2

Reality is the crud that gathers in our sensory filters.

Half the distinctions we make are because of the limitations of our senses. The other half are made on what we think is creative intuition, but it turns out we were pushed.

The infamous interference fringe experiment shows that light behaves any way it wants to, both as a wave and as particles, but when we put it through the screen of our observations, we choose which behavior we think describes it best. It may be neither wave nor particle. Those are constructs.

The mind is a construct of nature, of evolution becoming better and better at sensing the universe around it. Or perhaps it is the inverse; the all oneness of the universe requires mind in order to monitor itself locally. Hinduism.

I do not know, but I do not know in an active and curious fashion,
and on occasion I have a parallel epiphany.

And you?

Answer 3

Well, it's pretty difficult to back up a belief with any sort of facts - just about every philosopher has tried that and failed... including those who were strong believers in Dualism.

But I think it only takes one person of "limited intelligence" to enter our lives and show us just how much spirit they have - to make us firm believers in how consciousness and intelligence are two distinctly separate things.

Answer 4

To tell the truth I don't know what any of those actually are, but what I do know is this. Duality is a product of the mind as it perceives the unified, singular reality.

Answer 5

Dualism rules, but only if one recognizes that mind is not itself a substance.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

Why are there so many " 'ism's" in philosphy and psychology?