Compare And Contrast Materialism And Dualism

Consciousness The study of consciousness is more valuable than just the fulfilment of human interest arguments that consciousness plays a large role in can be influenced gravely if we were able to state exactly where consciousness exists and if we're able to demonstrate it. Consciousness is defined as the individual subjective experience that one has of the world either based on or involving the qualia. Qualia can be defined as are the communicable involuntary conscious mental states provoked in the us by our experiences of the world around us. Within philosophy there are two main theories that attempt to explain consciousness dualism and materialism. Dualism theorist argues that the mind and the body are two separate enmities. While materialist argue the opposite, they believe that there are only physical enmities in relations to consciousness. Ultimately consciousness is the concept that help us determined and analyze the sensations, thoughts, and experiences that occurred in our lives enabling us to form conclusions to makes sense of the world. …show more content…
Dualist believe that this non-physical substance is “abnormal stuff” which reaches far beyond the grasp of science resembles something like phantoms (Thomas 3). Mental process such as thinking, sensations, fantasies etc. are not the same as physical processes, such as movement, shapes, motions. (Thomas 2). Supporters of this theory state that mental process occur in the mind not in the body (Thomas 2). Dualist has had a difficult task of clarifying exactly how the mind, consciousness can be a non-physical substance but have the ability to exist and think? With this fault couple of philosopher have drawled ideas that are aimed to solve the