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    Challenges→Dualism appears to be a survival-friendly perspective.

    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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    Causally interact(as used in philosophy of mind)
    To have a direct effect on something else; when one thing causes something else to happen or change.
    Principled reason(as a philosophical standard)
    A consistent logical ground or justification based on an underlying rule or theory, rather than an arbitrary decision.
    disembodied(describing understanding that isn't connected to a physical person)
    Existing or happening without a physical body; separated from material form.
    personal identity(Philosophy of personal identity)
    The relation of sameness holding between a person existing at one time and something existing at another time, analyzed here in terms of psychological continuity
    psychological continuity

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    (Philosophy of personal identity)
    A relation holding between a person at one time and a being at a later time when the later being inherits the memories, intentions, beliefs, and psychological states of the earlier person.
    soul(Aristotelian natural philosophy as transmitted by 'Abd al-Latif)
    A principle introduced to explain animal life beyond what organs alone can account for, but insufficient on its own to explain the full range of human activity

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