ON SOLVING THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM
Dmitry Gennadievich Egorov
University of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, Pskov Branch, Pskov, Russia
Keywords: Descartes, dualism, positivism, Popper, monism, consciousness, philosophy of science
Abstract
The article criticizes the hypothesis currently accepted by default in most cognitive studies, which amounts to: All our states of consciousness are caused by lower-level neural processes in the brain and are themselves properties of the brain. The conclusion is made that the dualistic solution of the mind-body problem in the spirit of R. Descartes corresponds more to the modern level of knowledge than any other, specifically a person is a combination of two substances - corporeal and thinking.,
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