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Philosophy

The Mind-Body Problem in Philosophy

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The mind-body problem has been debated for over 2,000 years, from Plato's division of soul and body to modern arguments about whether consciousness can be explained by physics alone.

Why this is interesting

You think, feel, and make decisions—yet your brain is just a lump of cells. How does a physical thing produce a non-physical thought?