dual-aspect monism

• what is dual-aspect monism the belief of?

  that the mind and the brain are two aspects of the same substance
• why can the soul not live on after death?

  because one can't exist without the other
• (s) what does dual-aspect monism avoid the substance dualism problem of?

  how separate mental and physical substances can interact
• (s) how does dual-aspect monism avoid the substance dualism problem of how separate mental and physical substances can interest?

  because there are no separate substances, there is only one substance with two aspects (mental and physical)
• (s) what does dual-aspect monism avoid physicalisms problem with?

  qualia (reducing it to purely physical description)
• (s) the single substance of dual-aspect monism is...?

  unknown
• (s) entities such as quarks are unobservable just as the soul is unobservable
• (s) the "standard model" of particle physics doesn't make sense without what?

  quarks (so they must exist in some manner, even though they're unobservable)
• the idea that mind and matter are underpinned by a single, as-yet unknown substance is therefore...?

  not unlikely
• what does dual-aspect monism receive powerful support from?

  quantum theory
• in describing the relationship between what?

  the two aspects
• what does dual-aspect monism hold?

  that the fundamental reality is a single substance with mental and physical aspects
• what does quantum mechanics show?

  that reality, at its basic level, has a dual aspect
• when it comes to persons, dual-aspect monism becomes more interesting when combined with what?

  panpsychism
• what is panpsychism?

  the view the there is a level of consciousness mentality in all entities in the universe
• panpsychism and dual-aspect monism are what?

  mutually supporting
• there is one substance, with...?

  two aspects to it
• how are we more than just physical bodies?

  there is a spiritual part of us
• the physical and spiritual parts are part of one substance but...?

  neither can survive death
• so belief in what is not necessary?

  belief in the soul is not necessary
• what is one aspect?

  our sense of awareness (e.g. smelling and physical pain etc)
• what is this known as?

  qualia
• the first person aspect describes what? for example...?

  the feelings that we consciously experience for example, the experience of eating a piece of chocolate (this is unobservable by science)
• what is the third person aspect? for example...?

  the physical aspect that describes the changes that happen in the brain during any experience for example, the physical changes in the brain, as a result of eating chocolate (intake of chemicals, production of saliva etc)