Dualism Argument

What Is Our Mind?

For many years there has always been an assortment of ancient problems in the wide world of philosophy that has always left people scratching their heads, and that is the mind-body problem. This mind-body problem is a complication that is between our minds and our bodies. This means how our brain thinks and develops thoughts in our mind that include how we act, what we are thinking, our sufferings, feelings and even what our own opinions on an arrangement of topics are, and how they are akin to our natural bodies and universe. And of course, with just about any other dispute or disagreement, there are so many different ways that people reach conclusions and achieve an understanding about the mind-body problem. The mind body

It’s hard to pick a side because I think both sides bring up great points, but I think for right now I follow the dualist understanding of the mind-body problem. Both sides of the mind-body problem have not yet been proven to be scientifically correct or accurate. Dualism has been under the debate of many great philosophers and people for many years, while physicalism is relatively new. The question about where our mind and mental processes happen is a very difficult question to answer that many of the great philosophers are still debating on to this day. I believe dualism because I believe that our universe is built on physical objects like my body and mental objects like my brain and my ability to process information. Our mind is separate, sure my brain might be physical but what goes on inside there is not physical we have no way to really understand what it actually is just besides a mental process. Our minds and our body are separated but they both can have a cause and effect on one another. Our mental states can have effects on us physically like our moods, attitudes and our mental states can cause

Physicalist often bring up the argument that dualism does not make sense because how can a mental object be hanging out in a physical object. I believe dualism because I do not think the physicalist perspective is accurate when you talk about how there is only physical things that make up the world. For me it does not answer the question how we think and make decisions, there has to be some kind of mental object that process and manages all of that information in our brains. To be honest I don’t think that any of these arguments are true or false, we still need to do more work before we could figure such questions out. I think we can argue that something is happening both in the brain physically like neurotransmitters and something mental as well, no argument is right or wrong in this case because we just don’t know. Dualist can argue that love is not something physical, something mentally happens that attracts you to someone and there is a feeling and emotion associated with love that just is not