Dualism Redux!
Celebrating (if that's the word for it) the tenth anniversary of my technothriller Dualism, I was moved to bare the philosophical underbelly of that work on Academia.edu.
A foretaste:
Though admittedly a tough nut to crack, I’ve never been a big fan of the “interactionist” objection to Cartesian dualism (a.k.a. substance dualism) — even going so far as to design a thought experiment aimed at challenging this objection’s core assumptions.
Then, for kicks and giggles, I went and embedded said Gedankenexperiment in one of my technothrillers — the one entitled, aptly enough, Dualism.
In so doing, I guess I was being, as the saying goes, too clever by half. Because here it is, ten years on, and nobody seems to have gotten the joke hidden at its heart yet.
So, let’s take another run at this.
A foretaste:
Though admittedly a tough nut to crack, I’ve never been a big fan of the “interactionist” objection to Cartesian dualism (a.k.a. substance dualism) — even going so far as to design a thought experiment aimed at challenging this objection’s core assumptions.
Then, for kicks and giggles, I went and embedded said Gedankenexperiment in one of my technothrillers — the one entitled, aptly enough, Dualism.
In so doing, I guess I was being, as the saying goes, too clever by half. Because here it is, ten years on, and nobody seems to have gotten the joke hidden at its heart yet.
So, let’s take another run at this.
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