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3.1 Philosophy of religion and ethics: Philosophy of religion
Quick questions on Self, death and the afterlife: dualism, materialism and survival - AQA A-Level Religious Studies
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how does an immaterial mind move a material body, and how does an injury to the body produce pain in the mind?Show answer
Gilbert Ryle presses the further charge that dualism rests on a category mistake, the "ghost in the machine": to look for a separate mind behind the behaving body is like watching a parade of regiments and then asking where the "division" is, as though it were an extra item rather than the regiments organised. For Ryle, mental terms describe patterns of behaviour and dispositions, not a hidden inner substance.
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