![]() ![]() This is the process of “Reductionism.” Reductionist scientists believe that everything, including biology, can be accounted for at the most basic level by the physical sciences. ![]() These parts can be selected to be so small and simple that they become comprehensible. Physical sciences have been extremely successful in analyzing the material world by reducing complex physical systems into their constituent parts. Brain neurons interact through synaptic connections to generate mental phenomena, and damage to a part of one’s brain affects mental functions. Brain scans indicate that thoughts are intimately related to brain activity. It has also been established that the mind is inexorably linked to matter. Science teaches us that our bodies are made of matter composed by a number of basic chemical elements out of the 9. The fundamental problem of Dualism is that it has no convincing explanation of how the two realms of mind and matter interact. If dualism is taken to be true, it is then not illogical to entertain the possibility of the mind surviving the death of the body, a basic tenet of many religions. This is the philosophical tenet of “Dualism,” which asserts that the human mind is essentially immaterial and disembodied. Matter and experience appear to us as qualitatively different hence Descartes’s belief that mind (our experiential self) and matter are distinct and of different nature to each other. There is nothing more concrete than the existence of this experience, hence Descartes’s dictum: “I think, therefore I am.” All knowledge, scientific or otherwise, is communicated to us through personal conscious experience, and this is the fundamental core of our being. ![]() We all have an intimate knowledge of our conscious experience. ![]()
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