Vampire [any]@hexbear.net to philosophy@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months agoWhere do Hexbears stand on the mind-body problem?message-squaremessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhere do Hexbears stand on the mind-body problem?Vampire [any]@hexbear.net to philosophy@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square3fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 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-up1·7 months agoThat’s physicalism just using different words for mind and body, but acknowledging that both are really the same thing: the physical.
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.