PSY 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Virtual Reality, Peoplesoft, Cambridge University R.U.F.C.
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This claim cemented the idea of cartesian or substance. Dualism, a philosophical belief that our minds and bodies are separate entities differentiated by various properties. In the same vein, it also mandates that mental phenomena are by default, non-physical in nature. In the contemporary era of intellectual prosperity, it can be humbling to think of what led us here and why we chase the next advancement or breakthrough. I believe that an essential motivation behind such pursuits is to get closer to the truth of how the world around us operates. Seeing that descartes theory is one such attempt at obtaining the truth, i will propose what i perceive as the best argument for substance dualism from a use of leibniz" law. Initially such an argument will be tempting to accept, yet we will observe that it is ultimately unsound due to an epistemic fallacy.
