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To: Alamo-Girl

On the question of how thought causes muscle action, it appears that William James discussed the mind-dust & dualism problems over a century ago. He is the eye in the hurricane.


71 posted on 09/23/2005 11:02:41 AM PDT by RightWhale (We in heep dip trubble)
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To: RightWhale; betty boop
Thank you for your reply!

On the question of how thought causes muscle action, it appears that William James discussed the mind-dust & dualism problems over a century ago. He is the eye in the hurricane.

Here are two excellent articles by betty boop and threads which discuss the false Cartesian split exhaustively:

The “Cartesian Split” Is a Hallucination; Ergo, We Should Get Rid of It

Can the Monist View Account for What Is Life


80 posted on 09/23/2005 11:14:35 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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