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    A dualist afterlife that cannot explain soul-body interac... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Proponents of an afterlife would be better served by espousing some variety of mind-body dualism rather than materialism.

    A dualist afterlife that cannot explain soul-body interaction during life offers no explanatory advantage over materialist resurrection accounts.

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    • 1.If dualism cannot explain soul-body interaction in life, it fails its primary explanatory burden before addressing afterlife claims.
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    • 2.Materialist resurrection requires only extending known physical processes; dualism requires positing interaction mechanisms entirely without precedent.
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    • 3.An afterlife theory gains no advantage by positing non-physical substance if that substance's causal role remains fundamentally mysterious.
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    • 1.The interaction problem may be unsolved without being unsolvable; incomplete explanation differs from zero explanatory advantage.
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    • 2.Dualism can explain afterlife persistence of consciousness independently of solving interaction; these are separate metaphysical questions.
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    • 3.Materialist resurrection faces equal difficulties explaining personal identity continuity and subjective persistence across physical reconstitution.
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