mind-body problem
The mind-body problem refers to the philosophical inquiry into the relationship between the mind (consciousness and mental processes) and the body (physical processes of the brain and the rest of the body), investigating how they interact or if they are separate entities.
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Related Concepts (30)
- cartesian dualism
- cognito ergo sum
- consciousness
- dualism
- eliminative materialism
- emergentism
- epiphenomenalism
- functionalism
- hard problem of consciousness
- human consciousness
- idealism
- identity theory
- interactionism
- materialism
- mental causation
- metaphysics
- mind-brain identity theory
- monism
- multiple realizability
- panpsychism
- phenomenalism
- philosophy of mind
- physicalism
- property dualism
- qualia
- sapience
- sentience
- solipsism
- substance dualism
- supervenience
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- body awareness
- body consciousness
- body-mind integration
- cognitive neuroscience of the body
- consciousness and the mind-body problem
- embodied problem-solving
- mental awareness
- mental explanation
- mental phenomena
- mental properties
- mind control
- mind-body connection
- mind-body problem in ai
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