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Mind-Body Philosophy Explained

Philosophical viewpoints on the mind include dualism and idealism, which see the mind as nonphysical, and physicalism and functionalism, which equate the mind with the brain or neuronal activity. The mind-body problem investigates how the mind relates to the physical brain and nervous system. Another open question is which types of beings are capable of having minds, such as whether it is exclusive to humans or can also apply to animals, living things, or some machines.

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Mind-Body Philosophy Explained

Philosophical viewpoints on the mind include dualism and idealism, which see the mind as nonphysical, and physicalism and functionalism, which equate the mind with the brain or neuronal activity. The mind-body problem investigates how the mind relates to the physical brain and nervous system. Another open question is which types of beings are capable of having minds, such as whether it is exclusive to humans or can also apply to animals, living things, or some machines.

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Philosophical viewpoints include dualism and idealism, which consider the mind somehow nonphysical.

[citation needed] While other views center around physicalism and functionalism, which hold
that the mind is roughly identical with the brain or reducible to physical phenomena such as
neuronal activity.[3][need quotation to verify]
One open question regarding the nature of the mind is the mindbody problem, which
investigates the relation of the mind to the physical brain and nervous system.[citation needed] Another
question concerns which types of beings are capable of having minds.[citation needed] For example
whether mind is exclusive to humans, possessed also by some or all animals, by all living things,
whether it is a strictly definable characteristic at all, or whether mind can also be a property of
some types of man-made machines.[citation needed]

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