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    What we conceive when imagining 'ourselves without bodies... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→One argument for dualism is based on the conceivability of our existing without our bodies.

    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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    • 1.Historical science repeatedly revealed apparent gaps were ignorance, not real divisions (e.g., life/non-life, heat/matter).
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    • 2.We can imagine disembodied minds yet lack introspective access to neural correlates, creating illusion of independence.
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    • 3.Complete mind-brain identity is consistent with conceivability of disembodied minds if our concepts are simply incomplete.
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    • 1.The conceivability of disembodied consciousness appears irreducible to mere ignorance—it's structurally distinct from heat/motion cases.
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    • 2.If mind-brain identity were true, neural damage should be fully predictive of mental loss; explanatory gaps suggest otherwise.
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    • 3.Invoking 'incomplete knowledge' as explanation for conceivability gaps risks making physicalism unfalsifiable and unfalsifiable claims aren't science.
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