ILX decides: the mind/body problem

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It's a tough one, boys and girls. But I'm sure if we all put our heads together, we can solve this problem once and for all.

― Ludwig, Friday, 15 August 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

soul wins

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 15 August 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you being obscure on purpose, or am I just not bright enough to get it? What are you talking about, Ludwig?

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 15 August 2003 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

he's an egg on legs with a violin - what can you expect?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 15 August 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

my mind has the problem of too much champagne, my body has the problem of not enough food! is that what you mean?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 15 August 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I don't know...

― Morrissey (Dan Perry), Friday, 15 August 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Dualism - it's a philosophical pseudoproblem.

― gobemouche, Friday, 15 August 2003 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the thread where I get called a pseud.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe there's only one, N.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a given on all the others

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

So pseud me.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

the body is what is touched - the mind is the touch factory.

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Mike, if I said you had a beautiful mind would you hold it against me?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The mind and body aren't independent of each other, it's not like they're two opposing things, more like two faces of the same coin, y'know?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah yeah, except without the coin, etc. ad inf.

― nestmanso (nestmanso), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Ludwig, didn't you yourself have a crack at solving this in your "Philosophical Investigations?" I can't quite remember how it went, but Descartes is wrong, and the Private Language Argument explains why.

― Susan (Susan), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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