A02 Shortened

• Cartesian dualism A02


  1. Soul is separate to body: res cognita and res extensa —> Phineas Gage proves that our mind is changeable
  2. Mechanical worldview and ghost in the machinery —> Gilbert Ryle ‘category mistake’
  3. Doubt everything except that you think. It is your soul that continues into the afterlife not your body —> Sam Harris. Not scientifically possible
• Life after death A02


  1. NDE’s: soul continues on —> Dawkins materialism. Body and soul die, no afterlife
  2. Plato world of forms and cycle of opposites—> Harris
  3. Descartes afterlife—> Dawkins meme
  4. Stories of reincarnation —> Not fully verifiable