Vampire [any]@hexbear.net to philosophy@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months agoWhere do Hexbears stand on the mind-body problem?message-squaremessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up131arrow-down1message-squareWhere do Hexbears stand on the mind-body problem?Vampire [any]@hexbear.net to philosophy@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square51fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·7 months agoI don’t understand the problem, the mind is emergant from the physical. The physical little wires in my brain make the “mind”. So of course it can influence my body, and my body can influence my mind, because the mind is part of the body.
minus-squareMaoo [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 months agoThat’s physicalism just using different words for mind and body, but acknowledging that both are really the same thing: the physical.
minus-squareBountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 months agoYea, I suppose it would be. Sometimes I prefer just laying my thoughts out and letting other people label them as they want to. There are too many dang labels these days
minus-squarePhilosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months ago just using different words for mind and body, but acknowledging that both are really the same thing: the physical Anomalous monism
minus-squareVampire [any]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 months agoThat’s begging the question
minus-squareBountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-27 months agoIt’s the only conclusion I can make from the evidence I have seen. I didn’t intend for it to be my full reasoning.
I don’t understand the problem, the mind is emergant from the physical. The physical little wires in my brain make the “mind”. So of course it can influence my body, and my body can influence my mind, because the mind is part of the body.
That’s physicalism just using different words for mind and body, but acknowledging that both are really the same thing: the physical.
Yea, I suppose it would be.
Sometimes I prefer just laying my thoughts out and letting other people label them as they want to. There are too many dang labels these days
Anomalous monism
That’s begging the question
It’s the only conclusion I can make from the evidence I have seen. I didn’t intend for it to be my full reasoning.