Arguments fro Dualistic Theories

Even though there are many cases and arguments for Dualism concerning mind - body, such as Descartes’ substance dualism, the theory does not often have hard, physical evidence to back up such premise like science does. The continued scientific progress over the past centuries has allowed us to better understand universal truths and the functions of the mind-body that were not able to have been explained scientifically in the past. Many complex, unexplained complexities have been simplified or “reduced” through chemistry,biology, or physics. Through both comparison of arguments supporting dualist theories and counter arguments, I will prove that Dualism is a concept of the past and the continued scientific progress is inevitable and will one day allow us to understand many Dualistic explanations with hard evidence and scientific proof that we have failed to do so in the past.

One of the major Dualistic theory, and one of the first proposed was that of Descartes’ interactive substance dualism. It is the view that says mind and body are separate entities - while the brain is part of the body, which is purely physical; our mind is a mental substance which is an extension of the body - a separate entity. When one experiences pain for example, the body incurs certain chemical and electrical stimuli (physical properties), which results in the self/soul consciously experiencing the felt quality and awareness of the pain (mental property). This is much argued within substance dualism that the soul and the brain interact closely with each other, though they are different substances with different properties. For Dualists, including both Substance and Physical, it seems obvious that physical properties do not have features that mental p...

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...rogress is inevitable.

As we progress into the future, it is certain that with scientific progress will keep on progressing and allow us to gain a better understanding of how our body and mind interacts. We are not simply trying to argue for science without reason instead of theories like Dualism, but the reasoning behind it is that Dualism and other related theories often lack hard, physical evidence to back up such claims or main points in the theory. They are simply outdated in terms of scientific explanations, and whereas many supporters still exist today, in certain cases they are forced to rely on faith resulting from a lack of hard physical evidence. Even though there are many aspects where science have not been able to explain, we hope to one day obtain knowledge from science and in time, explain complexities and universal truth that still exists today.