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    It is not the case that Every kind of thought present in us belongs to the soul.

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    • 1.Neural correlates of consciousness studies show specific brain states are necessary and sufficient conditions for particular thought-types.
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    • 2.If thought requires specific physical substrates as necessary conditions, thought cannot be attributed exclusively to an immaterial soul.
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    • 3.Descartes' own pineal gland mechanism concedes that physical states modulate thought content, undermining the soul's explanatory monopoly.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Spinoza demonstrated that thought and extension are parallel attributes of one substance, making soul-body dualism an illegitimate explanatory division.
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    • 2.If thinking and bodily processes are parallel modifications of the same underlying substance, attributing thought exclusively to 'soul' misidentifies the proper subject.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Anything we experience as being in us that can also exist in wholly inanimate bodies must be attributed only to the body.
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    • 2.Anything in us that cannot be conceived as capable of belonging to a body must be attributed to the soul.
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    • 3.We have no conception of the body as thinking in any way at all.
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