An Introduction to Philosophy (RLL style) Week 05 – Metaphysics 2 (Metaphysical Dualism) – Part 3: Would you donate your brain?
Descartes’ dualism pushes us to imagine the unthinkable: if the mind and body are separate, what truly makes us who we are? Would consciousness survive a change of hardware, or is it inseparable from the brain itself? By asking absurd-sounding questions, philosophy helps us probe the deepest mystery of all: whether identity lives in matter, mind, or somewhere in between.
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