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Just say that the mind is part of the natural world, which means the world isn't simply material. It's both mental and material.

Chalmers position is property dualism where certain informationally rich systems have conscious properties in addition to physical ones.

Anyway, materialism is a monism, like Thales saying the world is made of water. There's nothing that necessitates the world be a monism. Maybe it is and maybe it isn't.

Panpsychism is another dualistic view of the natural world than requires no supernatural component. Everything has a mental as well as material aspect.

parent goatlover 9 years ago

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