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| | Edge: NATURAL-BORN DUALISTS |
 | | Dualism and religion are not the same: You can be dualist without holding any other religious beliefs, and you can hold religious beliefs without being dualist. | | | And some very popular religious views rest on a dualist foundation, such as the belief that people survive the destruction of their bodies. |
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http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bloom04/bloom04_index.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dualism |
| | Christianity rejected all forms of a dual origin of the world which erected matter, or evil, or any other principle into a second eternal being coexistent with God, and it taught the monistic origin of the universe from one, infinite, self-existing spiritual Being who freely created all things. | | | Dualism affirms, in opposition to all forms of idealism, the independent, extramental reality of the material world. | | | Our belief in the existence of other minds is an inference from their bodies. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05169a.htm
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| | DUALISM - LoveToKnow Article on DUALISM |
| | This blind dualism found its natural consequence in the revolt of the Renaissance thinkers, Bruno and Paracelsus, who asserted the unity of mind and matter in all existence and were the precursors of the more intelligent monism of Leibnitz and the scientific metaphysics of his successors. | | | In Metaphysics.Metaphysical dualism postulates the eternal coexistence of mind and matter, as opposed to monism both idealistic and materialistic. | | | Spinoza realized the flaw in the division and preferred to postulate behind mind and matter a single substance (unica substantia) while Leibnitz explained the universe as a harmony of spiritual or semispiritual principles. |
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http://73.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DU/DUALISM.htm
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| | THE NOTION OF DUALISM |
| | Dualism, or the doctrine that existence is under the domain of two antithetical principles, has frequently been proposed as present in the Zoroastrian religion. | | | The latter individuals often object to discussions of dualism in the religion, feeling it suggests that their ancestors believed in two deities rather than venerating one creator God as Zoroaster had always proposed. | | | Mardanfarrokh did so by contrasting the dualistic worship of Ahura Mazda (ormazd) the creator God and condemnation of Angra Mainyu (Ahreman) the destructive devil to the monotheistic veneration of Allah who, according to Islamic belief, is the ultimate source of all things good and evil. |
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http://www.ahura.homestead.com/files/IranZaminTwo/Jamshed_Choksey.htm
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| | Dualism |
| | Ethical or ethicoreligious dualism asserts that there are two mutually hostile forces or beings in the world, the one being the source of all good, the other the source of all evil. | | | More moderate forms of dualism pervade most religions, expressed, for example, by the distinction between sacred and profane, or by the analysis of reality in terms of yang and yin in Chinese thought. | | | Dualisms are of two basic kinds, metaphysical and epistemological. |
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http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/text/dualism.htm
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| | Scientific Dualism in Swedenborg Glossary by Leon James |
| | "Dualism" refers to the premise that there are two worlds -- natural and spiritual, or that we are "dual citizens," that is, at birth we are born into two worlds -- the body in the natural world, the mind in the spiritual world. | | | This Second Advent occurred in the year 1757 as a symbolic gesture in the spiritual world; Swedenborg was given to be the sole witness from earth to be a direct participant in it. | | | Swedenborg on earth was busily reporting what he had been witnessing in the spiritual world. |
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http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy/instructor/gloss/dualism.html
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| | Dualism |
| | In dualism, ‘mind’ is contrasted with ‘body’, but at different times, different aspects of the mind have been the centre of attention. | | | The more modern versions of dualism have their origin in Descartes' Meditations, and in the debate that was consequent upon Descartes' theory. | | | One should bear in mind, however, that all arguments against physicalism are, simply by dint of being arguments against physicalism, arguments for dualism of some kind. |
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http://www.seop.leeds.ac.uk/archives/fall2004/entries/dualism
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| | Bible Dictionary: Dualism |
| | The dualism of the Persian religion, Zoroastrianism, has had an impact on both Judaism and Christianity, where the Adversary, Satan, or the Devil is sometimes thought of as a power alongside God. | | | In religion dualism is the belief that there are two (divine?) powers in opposition. | | | In this sense too, dualism has impacted on Christian belief and practice. |
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http://www.bible.gen.nz/amos/culture/dualism.htm
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| | An Essay On Philosophy by blupete. |
| | Though they were prepared to accept dualism, the thinkers of the church preferred idealism; materialism was a threat to the medieval dominance of the scholastics. | | | Dualism is the belief - that reality, subsists, both in thought and in matter. | | | These are some of the elementary questions that come to one who inquires into the nature and ultimate significance of the universe. |
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http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/BluePete/Phil.htm
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| | DUALISM |
| | The historical development of Iranian dualism under the influence of Babylonian astronomy and astrology and the astral religion of Mesopotamia, far from preserving Zoroastrian moral values and belief in the dignity and freedom of man, caused a radical subversion of those values. | | | Zoroaster's dualism was therefore a wholly transcendent or "spiritual" dualism, not based on the opposition me@no@g versus ge@t^g, which can be very approximately translated as "spiritual" and "material" respectively. | | | The existence of evil forces is only "spiritual" or "mental"; Iranian dualism is a dualism not between spirit and matter but between two spirits, who choose between truth (aæáa, q.v.; gathic aæåuuan-) and falsehood (drug; gathic dr™guuanát- or Younger Av. |
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| | 20th WCP: Cartesian Dualism and the Union of Mind and Body: A Synchronic Interpretation |
| | Dualism and union are present in the same argument, but while the former is the main topic and Descartes center of attention, the latter is only mentioned as a fact. | | | Descartes himself recognized the uneven development of his doctrine on dualism and his doctrine on the union and interaction of mind and body. | | | In effect, Cartesian dualism claims the independent existence of a non-corporeal realm and a physical realm. |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Mode/ModeMonr.htm
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| | Dualism and ther "Heresies" |
| | Although the names of the gods change, and in some variations there is a third intermediary god, the same basic belief system can be traced from its origins in Persia some three thousand years ago. | | | The theology appears for the first time in ancient Persia, where Zoroastrianism a Dualist religion, becomes the official state religion (there are still Zoroastrians in modern Iran, regarded by Moslems as one of the peoples of the Book. | | | [Notice that mitigated dualism is now perfectly conventional mainstream belief in the Orthodox Churches and in the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches] |
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| | Dualism is the metaphysical doctrine that there are two substances, i.e., distinct and independent types of being, one material and the other spiritual. | | | They can certainly be coherently explained by dualism, but it is not necessary to bring in the belief in non-physical reality to explain everything that is hard to talk about physically. | | | As noted above, there are also problems with trying to conceive of non-physical perception, despite Descartes' argument that such a conception is absolutely clear and distinct in his Meditations on First Philosophy, an argument essential to dualism. |
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| | CTheory.net |
| | [9] Although Catholicism rejected Platonic dualism in favor of a theistic monism, a God-centered unity, St. Augustine remained preoccupied with the difference between physical and moral evil,[10] and Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics distinguished between spiritual beings and the bodily matter that the spirit animates. | | | Dualism is older than organized religion, as old as philosophy. | | | It is there that a multivalent tool would be most welcome and useful. |
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http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=416
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| | Arguments against Reductionism, Materialism and Epiphenomenalism |
| | As dualism in one form or another continues to be the predominant teaching of the church, it is apparent why there is so much antipathy from fundamentalists towards the theory of evolution. | | | The western response to materialism is dualism, which claims that there are two kinds of things in the universe - material objects and souls. | | | In particular, it is more in agreement with Buddhism than are either Classical Materialism or Dualism, in that Physicalism does not recognise the existence of things-in-themselves. |
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http://home.btclick.com/scimah/materialism.htm
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| | IMMANENT DUALISM AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO DUALISM AND MONISM |
| | Immanent dualism promotes the complementarity rather than the compartmentalization of science and religion. | | | The world view of immanent dualism enables science and religion to develop complementary voices (insights) about the same world. | | | Science and religion, when authentic and true to their own epistemological possibilities, develop valid insights from different perspectives into the nature of reality-which is assumed to exist even if it is unknowable- in its entirety. |
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http://www.asa3.org/ASA/topics/worldview/Worldviews4-00Steiner.html
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| | Dualism and Mind [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Because it seems entirely conceivable that there could exist a twin Earth where all of the physical properties that characterize the actual world are instantiated and are interrelated as they are here, but where the inhabitants are “zombies” without experience, or where the inhabitants have inverted qualia relative to their true-Earth counterparts. | | | An argument for property dualism, derived from Nagel and Kripke, is as follows: We can assert that warmth is identical to mean kinetic molecular energy, despite appearances, by claiming that warmth is how molecular energy is perceived or manifested in consciousness. | | | The Ockham’s Razor argument creates a strong methodological presumption against dualism, suggesting that the mind-body split multiplies entities unnecessarily in much the way that a demon theory of disease complicates the metaphysics of medicine compared to a germ theory. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/dualism.htm
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| | Dualism |
| | Note, that in such a system all humans are immortal and therefore can be called "gods." The tomb inscriptions illustrate the variety of belief or lack of belief in an afterlife. | | | They date from the 4th to 2nd centuries B.C.E. They appear to be a kind of cryptic "cue card" for the initiated soul who encounters the powers of the world of the dead. | | | The Tomb Prayers represent very early versions of this notion, and you can see that they still contain the archaic idea of the underworld of the dead. |
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| | Substance Dualism and Disembodied Existence |
| | Substance dualism, that most unpopular of current theories of mind, continues to find interesting and able defenders.[1] I shall focus on one set of arguments supplied by one of the current defenders, and I shall argue that these arguments fail. | | | But by contrast, the dualism argument can receive only a rigid reading and that guarantees that the argument is valid. | | | I will focus on the argument from the possibility of disembodied consciousness, as this seems to be the line of argument which Swinburne finds most convincing. |
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| | Philosophical Dictionary: Dimaris-Dworkin |
| | As a solution to the traditional mind-body problem, dualism derives especially from Descartes and his followers in the seventeenth century. | | | Variations on this theme (including interactionism, parallelism, and epiphenomenalism) arise when dualists try to explain why events in the supposedly separate realms of mind and body seem so well-coordinated with each other. |
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| | Search results for 'Dualism' |
| | He preached "Dvaita" or dualism, where the divinity was separate from the human conscience. | | | Besides, upholding spiritual knowledge, devotion and renunciation seem to be the favorite stand of great many teachers. | | | He wanted "bliss of communion with God; did not want to become one with him". |
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| | Dualism: The Mind-Brain Problem |
| | Physicalism is the doctrine that everything that happens in the real world could, ultimately, be explained by the laws of physics plus the state of the universe at the time the event in question occurs. | | | The fact is that, leaving aside mythical and religious cosmologies, the position of mind in nature remains a total mystery. | | | Whether such a formulation is even tenable, I am still very doubtful (Beloff, 1965); it begs the question as to whether two entities that have entirely different properties could, ontologically, be regarded as one and the same. |
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| | Overcoming Objections to Swedenborg's Writings Through the Development of Scientific Dualism |
| | These descriptions must be accepted as scientific revelations, that is, facts about reality that were unknown in science, and serve to assist us in building a rational civilization that is in harmony with spiritual reality, thus serving to improve the orderly evolution of society and mind. | | | The Lord's purpose for this new revelation is to bring on His long promised Second Advent, a process which is to be accomplished through and in the writings of Swedenborg, the appointed revelator. | | | Before my mind was opened, so that I could speak with spirits, and so be persuaded by living experience; for many years previous, such proofs existed with me, that I am now astonished, that yet I did not come into persuasion concerning the Lord's government, through spirits. |
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http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy/instructor/np98.html
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| | Monism, Dualism, Pluralism |
| | First, none of the standard "isms"-Cartesian dualism, functionalism, and the rest-can do justice to the metaphysical relationship between belief and the physical. | | | What must be true, for the mind-body debate in this simplified form to be worth discussing, is that the assumptions are widely adhered to in actual practice. | | | The four assumptions do indeed lie behind that abstraction. |
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| | Consciousness - philosophical deadends. Homunculi, dualism, epiphenomenalism, solipsism and panpsychism. |
| | Dualism is the belief that there are two different worlds, or two fundamentally different kinds of stuff, in existence: matter and spirit, for example. | | | In spite of the hostility of most (not all) philosophers towards dualism, moreover, discussions of alternative worlds remains a popular method of argument about possibility, identity, and indeed, consciousness. | | | In recent years, Descartes has rather unjustly come in for particularly heavy criticism over his dualism, and it seems to have become almost mandatory to start any popular book about consciousness by criticising him for it (while borrowing one of the quaint illustrations from his books). |
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http://www.consciousentities.com/deadends.htm
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| | dualism from FOLDOC |
| | Descartes' mind/matter distinction can be found in his Meditations and is a particular kind of dualism Cartesian interactionist. | | | See occasionalism, doctrine of pre-established harmony substance dualism, property dualism, Cartesian interactionist dualism, mind-body problem, monism. | | | Aristotelianism, by contrast, holds that mind and body are not two distinct substances but two aspects of the same thing, of the same complete human person (cf. |
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| | Dualism |
| | The Durant quote, which requires a knowledge of the history of western religions and familiarity with Christian doctrine and the New Testament, may be viewed as an insightful statement on the penetration of western dualism into Christianity and how Christianity has changed as a result. | | | The Bronk and Chaudhuri quotes illustrate how the western and eastern dualism are expressed in their respective religious traditions. | | | Dualism in eastern society sees the universe as composed of complementary forces and the goal is to restore or to maintain a balance between the competing forces. |
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| | Books on Dualism |
| | Dualism was a popular religion from the reign of Constans II (641-68). | | | It shared with other strands of Christianity an acceptance of scriptual authority and apostolic tradition, but understood all these in a radically different way from the Orthodox Church. | | | ie Dualism in the religious sense that there are two principle gods, a god of good and a god of evil (Beware that Amazon and other searches will throw up books on the other kind of dualism, Cartesian Dualism, concerning the relationship between the mind and the brain) |
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| | Manicheism as a non-violent, yet true dualism |
| | Manichaeism is a system of religious belief based on radical dualism. | | | The ethics of Manicheism is based on Buddha's teachings. | | | This idea is an imanent underlying principle of a different religious system born in Persia: zoroasterianism, where two Gods, the one of Evil and the one of Good, fight each other using power. |
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| | Dictionary of the History of Ideas |
| | sophical dualism, nor a religious one belonging to the | | | dualism in him seems rather to come from Saint Paul | | | The word “dualism” then has two principal mean- |
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| | Dead Sea Scrolls - Dualism - 1QM |
| | Eschatological dualism cannot be used to classify the text because "no clear details of the nature of the future existence of the sect members are given" after the final battle. | | | Its date has been an issue of considerable debate, ranging from the middle half of the first century BCE to the middle of the first half of the first century CE. | | | Dualism in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Part 8): Dualism in 1QM |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Theological Aspects of the Avesta |
| | As it is now followed by the living descendents of its first votaries, the Parsees of India, it is virtually the same as it appears in the Avesta itself, except that its monotheism is more rigid and determined, and that it has shed such objectionable practices as Khvetuk-das (Khvaetva-datha) and seeks to explain them away. | | | Dualism in its widest sense seems to be an inherent and ineradicable tendency of the Iranian mind. | | | For in this Achaemenid inscriptions there is absolutely no trace of the dualism which is the characteristic and all-prevailing feature of the Avesta, and no allusion whatever to the great prophet Zoroaster, or the revelation of which he was the mouthpiece. |
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| | Property Dualism |
| | Secondly, it is not rooted in religious beliefs and is thus more scientifically based than Descartes' theory. | | | It seems highly problematic for property dualism to claim that there are facts that cannot be measured scientifically; and this issue also renders the theory unfalsifiable. | | | This leads to a host of practical issues regarding the evolutionary development of consciousness and which systems can be said to be conscious. |
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http://www.arrod.co.uk/essays/property-dualism.php
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| | The Tao of Search Engine Marketing: Dualism in SEO |
| | To excel in both aspects, to stand out from others in the trade, you must understand the principle of dualism that underlies and permeates the craft as a whole and in parts (this requires sageness and wisdom). | | | Dualism: in philosophy, the use of two irreducible, heterogeneous principles (somet imes in conflict, sometimes complementary) to analyze the knowing process (epistemological dualism) or to explain all of reality or some broad aspect of it (metaphysical dualism). | | | The fact that you must understand both certain Internet technologies and principles of marketing is also a n example of this. |
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| | 20th WCP: Tractarian Dualism |
| | I do not claim that defending some form of dualism was Wittgenstein's main purpose in the Tractatus or even a primary one. | | | Given the particular form it takes there, in fact, dualism cannot perhaps even be directly argued for at all, which may help explain why this aspect of the work has been neglected. | | | Consequently, if whatever supposedly lies on the side of the mind or experience can be identified and described, then it falls within the reach of natural science and whatever is withheld from that grasp is not part of the world. |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Meta/MetaTull.htm
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| | Cartesian Dualism: Mind and Brain Interaction |
| | Indeed, the Greeks saw them as alien to one another, the body being the prison house of the soul. | | | The Greeks held that a man's soul was of an entirely different essence than his body. | | | What emerged was a determination to reduce everything to physics and chemistry, or perhaps more precisely to physics and mathematics (though there are chemists who do not look kindly upon viewing their science as a branch of physics). |
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| | AllRefer.com - dualism (Philosophy, Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia |
| | The term also has a theological application, e.g., Manichaeism explained evil in the world as resulting from an ultimate evil principle, coeternal with good. | | | Thus in Immanuel Kant there is an ontological dualism between the phenomenal and noumenal worlds and an epistemological dualism between the passivity of sensation and the spontaneity of the understanding. | | | dualism, any philosophical system that seeks to explain all phenomena in terms of two distinct and irreducible principles. |
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| | Rene Descartes and the Legacy of Mind/Body Dualism |
| | For Descartes, there are two different created substances, body and soul (which he also termed "mind"). | | | The 17th Century: Reaction to the Dualism of Mind and Body | | | As is evident from the subtitle, it is in the Meditationes that Descartes first provided a systematic articulation of the metaphysical dualism of mind and body that has long bedeviled western thought. |
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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/Descartes.html
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| | New Dualism |
| | See The Interaction between the Soul and the Body, 1769 ( | | | dualism, Cartesianism, monism, materialism, property dualism, discrete degrees, continuous degrees, mind, spirit, nature, physics, psychology, theology, potentialities, virtual events, quantum gravity, energy, mind-body, mind-brain, correspondences, multiple levels, multiple generative levels, spiritual, mental, natural, quantum, consciousness, recursive, divine, love, wisdom, use, purpose, means, effect, influx | | | Eugene Mills, Interactionism and Physicality, 1997 (cc); for discussion concerning the common claim that "Anything that can move a physical thing is itself a physical thing". |
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| | Notablog: Dualism: A Difference With Distinction |
| | Now; if we want to call it "dualism" to properly identify two different things and scrupulously discriminate between them, then I guess it's okay, but everybody should bear in mind that that's what it means. | | | To my mind, this must necessarily destroy the "dualism" at hand, which is a proper thing to do. | | | The chat continues between Geoffrey Allan Plauche, Billy Beck, and me. Billy had originally questioned the very use of the word "dualism" to describe what he believes is mere "difference." He writes here: |
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http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sciabarra/notablog/archives/000700.html
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| | Descartes developed, and is commonly associated with, the concept of mind-body dualism in which mind and matter are distinct and capable of independent existence. | | | Another type of duality found in the Web is due to its unique form and communication potential. | | | Metaphysical dualism raises new problems when one considers Norbert Wiener's concept of "cybernetics" and the problem of distinguishing man and machine. |
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| | the state of being dual or consisting of two parts; division into two. |
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| | Energy is obviously one of the key terms of synergetics, and the Fuller School should sort out what it means, and what it doesn't mean. | | | Synergetics already proposes to replace Descartes' XYZ co-ordinates, so we needn't be squeamish about replacing his dualism as well. | | | My recommendation here is that we dump mind/brain dualism for the sake of synergetics. |
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| | The name, Dualism, implies having an overly-simplistic view of things. | | | Dualism is a collective providing innovative and engageing multimedia solutions, of elegant design and practical function. |
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