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    It is not the case that Proponents of an afterlife would be better served by espousing some variety of mind-body dualism rather than materialism.

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    • 1.Mind-body dualism faces the interaction problem: if the soul is non-physical, it is deeply unclear how it causally affects the body.
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    • 2.A dualist afterlife that cannot explain soul-body interaction during life offers no explanatory advantage over materialist resurrection accounts.
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    • 3.Materialism avoids positing ontologically mysterious substances, satisfying parsimony principles that dualism violates.
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    • 1.Peter van Inwagen's materialist resurrection model—God preserves the exact corpse and reconstitutes it—demonstrates a coherent physicalist afterlife framework.
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    • 2.The difficulties facing materialist resurrection are no more formidable than the dualist's obligation to explain personal identity for a disembodied soul across time.
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    • It has not been shown conclusively that an identity-preserving materialist resurrection is impossible, but the difficulties are formidable.
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