Comment by Tarq0n
6 hours ago
Dualism is almost always unhelpful as a model. Your soul is a process your body runs, they are indistinguishable.
6 hours ago
Dualism is almost always unhelpful as a model. Your soul is a process your body runs, they are indistinguishable.
You introduced dualism yourself by making distinction between body / process.
I heard Michal Levin talk about dualism recently. He has an interesting point: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qp0rCU49lMs&t=6210
It doesn't have to be a reference to dualism. We can draw a distinction between specific patterns of brain activity and the body that realizes it. "I" exist only when the characteristic property of neural activity that realizes the self is present. I am the realization of this second-order property. Here the "soul" is this specific pattern of dynamics realized by my body's neurons.
It's useful to have a word for cumulonimbus and models based on that even if you know it's just a particular configuration of the wave function.
Whether personality is entirely based on laws of physics or not - is a separate question.
Maybe.
Nah.