Mind-Body Dualism
Across
- 5. An approach that analyzes a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents.
- 9. The tiny gland in the brain where Descartes believed the soul resided.
- 10. A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.
- 11. The view that consciousness, mind, or soul is a universal and primordial feature of all things.
- 12. The capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively.
- 14. The view that there is only one kind of substance (opposed to dualism).
- 15. The French philosopher who famously declared "I think, therefore I am."
- 17. A secondary effect or byproduct that arises from but does not causally influence a process.
- 19. Relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect.
- 20. The belief that reality consists of two fundamental substances, mind and matter.
Down
- 1. A synonym for Physicalism; the denial of a non-physical soul.
- 2. The subjective, individual experiences of perception, like the redness of a rose.
- 3. The Latin word for "I think," the starting point of Cartesian philosophy.
- 4. In philosophy, the fundamental reality that supports a thing.
- 6. The Princess of Bohemia who challenged Descartes on the interaction problem.
- 7. The philosopher who coined the "Hard Problem" of consciousness.
- 8. The theory that mind and body causally influence one another.
- 13. The process where a complex system develops properties its parts do not have (like wetness from water).
- 16. Philosophical creatures that look and act like humans but lack inner consciousness.
- 18. The theory that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties.