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    It is not the case that The human soul is immaterial.

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    Reasons For

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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