Another way that dualists attempt to rescue their belief from the avalanche of neuroscientific evidence is to appeal to the “correlation is not necessarily causation” fallacy. They say, “Sure, the brain correlates with the mind in all those ways you point out. But that doesn’t mean the brain causes the mind.” Perhaps, they argue, the brain is simply a receiver for the mind, which lies outside of the physical. If you change the channel on your TV (the TV being the brain in this analogy), that changes the program, but the TV didn’t cause the program. This analogy fails, however. I might be able
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