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    It is not the case that Dualism appears to be a survival-friendly perspective.

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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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    • 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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