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Body/soul relationship

-No body/soul relationship, there is no soul


- reductive philosophy, 'mind's reduces to 'brain'


- dementia effects brain and mind so they must be connected

Functionalism

Persuasive reductive physicalist argument


-systems function;


Input-> function->output (like a thermostat)


Mind function;


Experience (sense) -> processing brain -> resultant behaviour

Show issues with Dualism

1) How non physical mind can interact with physical matter


2) obvious to most people that matter and mind are inextricably linked we do not find minds that are not linked to matter


3) facts that drugs affect the mind