• TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    Do you mean to say that an idea is portrayed as a non-physical, non-material thing that is independent from reality? If both are codependent on reality, idk if there really is a contradiction there, unless there are actually saying that the mind is a material, physical thing.

    That said, I don’t think the nature of ‘the mind’ outside of it’s still kinda undetermined relationship to the body has been determined well enough to speak on it outside of the purely philosophical.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      Well the philosophical position of physicalism (as opposed to Cartesian mind-body dualism) holds that the mind is fundamentally just as much of a physical thing as anything else in the world.