Question by Meredith K: Do you think, if there are any modern philosophers, that they must lead tragic lives or lives of oppression?

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Answer by pinkyismygirlfriendniluvhur
it depends

philosophers are people who love knowledge I think

so if they just go get some, then I bet they are happy

some of em probly drink too much and sleep all day and don’t do their laundry enough though

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Another example of why mind-body dualism illustrates why I studied science and not philosophy. I sometimes think that some philosophers belong in caves, gazing at the flickering shadows of unfettered imagination on the wall. Joking aside, neurosurgeons and neurologists would be very unlikely to subscribe to the notion that the soul, mind, or consciousness exist independent of the processes of the physical mind. Evidence suggests that these are all experiential manifestations of brain activity. David John Chalmers is an Australian philosopher specializing in the area of philosophy of mind. In “The Conscious Mind” (1996), “Chalmers argues that all forms of physicalism (whether reductive or non-reductive) that have dominated modern philosophy and science fail to account for the existence (that is, presence in reality) of consciousness itself. He proposes an alternative dualistic view he calls naturalistic dualism (but which might also be characterized by more traditional formulations such as property dualism, neutral monism, or double-aspect theory).” en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org “If I understand the basic idea, naturalistic dualism holds that consciousness: – Is not a reducible phenomenon – Cannot be explained in terms of function – Is fundamentally different from anything physical or any function of anything physical, and is therefore a qualitatively different entity from anything else in the known universe source …
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