Illusionism on Mind Problem

Abdollahi, Siamak; Nasiri, Mansour

doi:10.22034/jpiut.2022.51469.3202

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Siamak Abdollahi ¹
Mansour Nasiri ²

¹ Corresponding Author, PH.D in Philosophy at Tehran University and Research Fellow at Department of Philosophy, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran.

² Associate Professor of Philosophy Department, Farabi Campus of Tehran University, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.51469.3202

Abstract

Nowadays, theories of the philosophy of mind, are divided into illusionist and non-illusionist. In relation to the Mind Problem (MP), Illusionism of Soul (IS) considers soul and all of the unphysical-mental events (like immaterial personal identity, non-physical consciousness and freewill, non-metaphysical morality, etc.) as an illusion and believes that science will completely explain them in the future. The authors have seen IS in neurophilosophy and Daniel Dennett's Center of Narrative Gravity (CNG). This essay is devoted to explaining IS and the two views on MP, and finally to comparatively comparing them. In this library research paper, we found that the two theories are common in physicalist-evolutionist basics that cause to consider mental events as an illusion and reject dualism; and they are different in eliminativism. we conclude that the mind-brain identity, which is the most important basic of illusionism, has many consequences; for example, the transformation of man into a machine, the unification of man with other animals, and certain ideas about a philosophical zombie.

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philosophy

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Volume 17, Issue 43 - Serial Number 43 articlesVol. 17, Issue 43, Summer 2023August 2023Pages 364-383

Volume 17, Issue 43 - Serial Number 43
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Vol. 17, Issue 43, Summer 2023
August 2023
Pages 364-383