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    It is not the case that One argument for dualism is based on the conceivability of our existing without our bodies.

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    • 1.Conceivability does not entail metaphysical possibility, as Kripke demonstrated with necessary a posteriori truths like 'water is H2O'.
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    • 2.We can conceive of water without H2O, yet this conceivability fails to establish their separability as a real metaphysical possibility.
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    • 3.Therefore, conceiving of ourselves without bodies provides no reliable evidence that such separation is genuinely possible.
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    • 1.What we conceive when imagining 'ourselves without bodies' may merely reflect our incomplete knowledge of mind-brain identity, not a genuine gap in nature.
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    • 2.Levine's 'explanatory gap' shows that phenomenal concepts feel separable from physical ones due to cognitive architecture, not actual ontological distinctness.
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    • It is conceivable that we could exist without our bodies.
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