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    The human soul is immaterial. — Carmelics
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    The human soul is immaterial.

    Consciousness & MindNatural Theology
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    • 1.The soul is the intellectual form of the living thing.
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    • 2.An intellectual form is a species.
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    • 3.Species are immaterial.
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    • 1.Mental states are identical to, or constitutively realized by, specific neurophysiological processes in the brain.
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    • 2.What is identical to or constitutively realized by physical processes is itself physical, not immaterial.
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    • 3.Systematic correlations between brain damage and the loss of specific cognitive capacities confirm this physical realization.
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    • 1.The inference from 'species are abstract universals' to 'the soul is immaterial' conflates the mode of representation with the nature of the representing thing.
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    • 2.A physical brain state can instantiate or encode a universal concept without itself being immaterial, just as ink can encode abstract meaning.
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    SEP: al-kindi
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    That There are Incorporeal Substances (Abu Rida 1950, 265–69, Adamson and Pormann 2009) is a creative application of ideas from Aristotle’s Categories to the problem of showing that the human soul is an immaterial substance. Al-Kindi takes up this task in stages, first proving that the soul is a substance, then showing that it is immaterial. He argues that the soul is a substance by drawing on the opening chapters of the Categories to claim that the essence of something shares a name and definit
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