Week 5 Post 2

Dualism is a concept that is recognized when dealing with certain complex ideas or fields. These are the ideas that AI may have a learning part and an inferring part, wave-particle duality, mind-body dualism and in religion the thought that humans have a spirit beside their bodies. 

The light cone shows a single place as the position of the observer experiencing time, which when applied to humans, one could argue, suggests a non-physical part of humans that is responsible for observing. And it wouldn't necessarily make sense if a single point in the ears, eyes, nose, or brain etc... is the powerhouse of all perception.  In christianity, it is sometimes preached that in order to join God after death you have to "ask Jesus into your heart". Since this is clearly not proposing a little human will enter the beating heart of every christian, it agrees that we may have a dual self. Additionally, with the concept of Free Will, and the proposition that in someone else's position "you" (being a non-physical/abstract you) would make the exact same decisions, dualism must be considered. 

Furthermore, establishing some part of an individual as abstract clarifies "you" and "I" (mind) as equals. Abstract objects are "asserted to 'exist' in a 'third realm' distinct both from the sensible external world and from the internal world of consciousness".  At some point we were all abstract "objects" (think millions of years ago when the thought of humans binge watching Netflix could not have). The potential for a metaphysical, theoretical object is unbound, therefore in our purest state we have equivalent potential. Given we are humans with genetics and subjective status, that potential is either extrapolated or repressed based on our present realities. 

To add more depth, in the movie On Yoga-The Architecture of Peace, one of the main takeaways is that the fear of a bodily death and the mortality of consciousness is the ultimate fear on which all other fears are based. "Fear of snakes, spiders, and major illness ultimately resides in the lurking fear that these specters will snatch our life from us. Fear of not finding a mate, having a child, finishing a project can all be tied to the finality of life". This is not to say a disbelief in an afterlife causes a fear of heights, rather that fear, anxiety, depression, etc... stems from the concern that a mindful self does not exist and that any threat to our bodies is an ultimate threat to our entire existence (and that is a scary thought). 

https://www.123helpme.com/essay/Dualism-and-Artificial-Intelligence-236217

https://tree-of-life.blog/2018/01/20/movie-time-on-yoga-the-architecture-of-peace/

nate's incoherent babble: Monism and Dualism, Metaphysics and Ethics


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  1. Ms. DunleyDecember 10, 2020 at 10:50 AM

    Would the concept of soul be the part of the individual which is abstract? How could you scientifically explain this idea?

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    1. Emmy KroneJanuary 8, 2021 at 7:23 AM

      Yes! The soul would be like the abstract part of someone. But, because it has so many names based on the thought or religion, I would just consider humans to have some "dual self".

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