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    Dualism appears to be a survival-friendly perspective. — Carmelics
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    Dualism appears to be a survival-friendly perspective.

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    • 1.If we are nothing more than our bodies, then the destruction of our bodies entails our destruction as persons.
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    • 2.If we are nonphysical minds or souls embodied in physical bodies, then the complete annihilation of our physical bodies does not entail our annihilation as persons.
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    • 1.Substance dualism requires a coherent account of soul-body interaction, yet Descartes' own interactionism faces the problem that causation between wholly disparate substances is unintelligible.
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    • 2.If the soul cannot causally interact with the body in life, there is no principled reason to think a disembodied soul could sustain the psychological continuity required for personal identity after death.
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    • 3.A survival-friendly view must preserve the person, not merely a bare mental substance stripped of memory, character, and embodied experience that constituted the individual.
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    • 1.Hume's bundle theory demonstrates that even granting dualism, introspection reveals no unified, persisting soul-substance—only discrete, fleeting impressions and ideas.
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    • 2.If there is no enduring soul-substance identifiable in life, dualism provides no stable metaphysical carrier whose post-mortem persistence would constitute genuine personal survival rather than mere continuation of psychological fragments.
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    At first, it seems obvious that dualism is a “survival-friendly” perspective. If we are nothing more than our bodies, it seems that if death destroys our bodies, we are destroyed and there is nothing left of us as persons—though parts of our bodies and the particles that make it up will be scattered and perhaps (temporarily) come to be part of the bodies of other living organisms. If, however, we are nonphysical (or immaterial) minds or souls or persons who are embodied, then even the complete annihilation of our physical bodies does not entail our annihilation as persons. In fact, one of seve...

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