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    Sensation belongs to the organic body, not to the mind. — Carmelics
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    Sensation belongs to the organic body, not to the mind.

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    • 1.Sensation is purely passive.
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    • 2.The mind is purely active and therefore cannot be the seat of sensation.
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    • 3.Living, embodied organisms are the proper subjects of sensation.
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    • 1.Descartes himself locates pain and hunger in the mind-body union, not in the body alone, suggesting sensation is irreducibly psychophysical.
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    • 2.If sensation belonged solely to the organic body, there would be no explanatory gap between neural firing and felt qualitative experience.
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    • 3.The phenomenal character of sensation—what it is like to feel heat or pain—is a mental property that cannot be reduced to organic processes.
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    • 1.Kant argues that sensation is the matter of intuition and is a necessary condition for any empirical representation, making it constitutively mental.
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    • 2.A purely passive account of sensation conflicts with Aristotle's active reception thesis, wherein the mind receives the form of sensible objects without their matter.
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    Another line of discussion that relates to the problem of dualism and the nature of ideas is advanced in 1734 by Ghanaian philosopher Anton Amo. An extraordinarily interesting thinker in his own right, Amo advances a critique of Descartes’s assertion that the mind can sense, that is, that the immaterial mind can passively receive sensory information. In his dissertation, On the Apatheia of the Human Mind, or The Absence of Sensation and the Faculty of Sense in the Human Mind and Their Presence i
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