Should we, as human beings, think of ourselves as made out of two different substances, like Decartes argued? Or are you persuaded by the arguments of physicalism that we are purely physical beings?
I believe as humans, we are made out of two different substances. As Decartes argues, our mind and body are two different entities. Although the fact that our mental life seems to be very closely connected to a physical organ, namely the brain, I still believe they are two separate things that have some kind of mutual symbiotic relationship. Without our physical body, our mind cannot exist and vice versa. Although physicalism would argue that the mind is only the activities of the brain.
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