Beliefs Of The Multiple Facets Of Epiphenomenalism

In my third reflection paper I will summarize my beliefs of the multiple facets of dualism and in particular about epiphenomenalism. Epiphenomenalism is viewed as a type of property dualism and is basically the idea that mental events are caused due to physical events in the brain. In other words, the mental emerges from the physical! To better understand this idea I thought that the idea of fear would be interesting to look at. According to epiphenomenalism it is not fear, which makes your heart beat faster but the state of your nervous system is what makes your heart beat faster. Also look at the idea of anger. According to epiphenomenalism it is not anger, which makes your heart beat faster and makes your face turn red but the neural impulses, nervous system, and other physical events in your brain that causes you to turn red and makes your heart beat faster.
I believe that the idea of epiphenomenalism is not very convincing. The concept of epiphenomenalism is very hard for …show more content…
To summarize, substance dualism is the idea that both the mental and the physical exist. Both the mental and the physical are separate of one another and are independent of one another. To believe in the idea of an afterlife (I believe in an afterlife) I believe that one must believe in substance dualism to a certain extent. The “soul” or the mental substance is what continues to live on after the bodily or physical substances death. Physical substances, like are bodies, do not have thoughts but the mental substances like are minds do! The human mind (mental substance) is different from the human brain (physical substance). When a person dies the human brain (physical substance) is buried but the human mind (mental substance) lives on. A mental substance does not exist physically in the physical world just like a physical substance does not exist in